About Downtown lafayette

About company

Downtown Lafayette wants to provide a rich and unique experience for all who visit, shop, dine, play, work, and live in Downtown Lafayette. Downtown Lafayette is a state-designated cultural district with an abundance of galleries, artist studios, and craft shops, in addition to 5 museums, a regional arts center, and numerous public murals. The city of Lafayette (originally called Vermilionville) was founded in the 1820s with 156 lots built around the Cathedral of Saint John. That first grid of streets would form the heart of what is now Downtown Lafayette.