Moving history
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The Arbroth Mercantile Store, believed to have been built between 1870 and 1890, was moved along a winding section of La. 415 on Thursday before getting to its destination at the West Baton Rouge Parish Museum in Port Allen.
“The West Baton Rouge Museum is focused on expanding our campus and this is a big step toward our long-range plan,” Museum Director Julia Rose said.
The store served as a gathering place for a century before closing in the 1980s, Rose said.
Josephine Busse-Rice said her family donated the store to the museum in honor of her parents Harvard and Catherine Glynn Busse.
“I’ve been extremely emotional today,” Busse-Rice said. “This museum is where the store should be. It needed to be preserved.”
On Thursday, the store was moved from its location on La. 415 in Bueche. Movers also had to cut down parts of branches from an oak tree on the museum grounds to get the store onto the museum property, Rose said.
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