The Golden Meadow High School, also known as Golden Meadow Junior High School and now Golden Meadow Middle School, is a historic school building located at 630 South Bayou Drive in

Golden Meadow, Louisiana Golden Meadow french: Canal Yankee is a town along Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,761 in 2020. It is part of the Houma– Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area. Its main ...

. Designed by New Orleans architects

Favrot and Livaudais Favrot & Livaudais (1891–1933) was an architectural firm in New Orleans, Louisiana. The firm designed many buildings that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The firm was founded in 1891 by Charles Favrot (1866-1939) and Lo ...

, the

Classical Revival Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...

brick building was erected in 1931. It features a two-story central block with one-story wings on each side. Grades one through ten were taught until 1933, when the school obtained high school accreditation. The school gave opportunities for sports almost as soon as it opened, and a band was organized in 1939. wit
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/ref> With . Golden Meadow High stopped operations in 1966 since it consolidated with Larose-Cut Off High School to form South Lafourche High School in Galliano. The building is currently Golden Meadow Middle School. The building was added to the

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on November 23, 1998.

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Golden Meadow Middle School
* School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana Neoclassical architecture in Louisiana School buildings completed in 1931 Educational institutions disestablished in 1966 1966 disestablishments in Louisiana Schools in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana National Register of Historic Places in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana {{Louisiana-NRHP-stub

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