Objects with a past for places with a future.

Green Pirogue Architectural Antiques is a Baton Rouge source for antique and reclaimed building materials collected from Louisiana, the United States, throughout Europe and many other places across the world.

We work with homeowners, interior designers, architects, and builders looking for materials that bring something different to a space. Our collection includes antique doors, reclaimed wood flooring, European stone and terracotta tile, marble, mantels, lighting, mirrors, garden pieces, and architectural objects that are increasingly difficult to find.

Some pieces are hundreds of years old. Others come from old homes, barns, mills, and buildings that have reached the end of their lives. What they have in common is that we believe they are worth saving.

How Green Pirogue Started

Green Pirogue grew out of my background in construction and a fascination with old buildings and the materials that make them feel different.

I'm a Baton Rouge native and a builder by trade. Working in residential construction made me appreciate the details that give a home character, especially the things that can't easily be recreated with new materials.

An old door doesn't quite hang like a new one. Reclaimed oak has saw marks, nail holes, and color that took decades to develop. Antique limestone is worn differently from one piece to the next. Those imperfections are often what make a room feel like it has always been there.

The problem was finding these materials.

What started as searching for interesting pieces for projects eventually turned into Green Pirogue: a place dedicated to finding old architectural materials and getting them back into homes.

Kyle Burns
Founder, Green Pirogue Architectural Antiques

We Go Looking for the Good Stuff

A big part of Green Pirogue happens long before something reaches our Baton Rouge showroom.

We source from old houses, barns, mills, reclamation yards, demolition projects, dealers, and collections throughout the United States and Europe. Some trips might be centered around antique French doors. Another shipment might include Belgian bluestone, European oak flooring, old terracotta, marble, firebrick, or a handful of objects we simply couldn't leave behind.

We aren't interested in filling a warehouse just for the sake of having inventory.

We look for pieces with good proportions, honest materials, useful sizes, beautiful wear, and a history that can become part of another place.

Whenever we know where something came from, we want to share that story too.

Old Materials Belong in New Places

We don't believe an antique home needs to be filled entirely with antiques.

In fact, some of our favorite projects are new homes.

A 150-year-old door can completely change a newly built room. Reclaimed European limestone can make a new kitchen feel established. Old beams can bring warmth to modern architecture. Antique terracotta only gets better as it continues to wear.

That contrast is a big part of what Green Pirogue is about.

We work with homeowners as well as architects, interior designers, and custom home builders throughout Baton Rouge and across the US to incorporate reclaimed materials into both new construction and renovations.

If you're planning a project, we'd rather be involved early. Antique materials don't always come in standard dimensions, and a little planning can make it much easier to design around the piece instead of trying to make the piece fit later.

Why Reclaimed?

There is something inherently sustainable about using what already exists.

Beautiful stone, old-growth lumber, handmade tile, ironwork, and solid wood doors were built to last much longer than the buildings they originally occupied. When those buildings come down, we would rather see the materials reused than thrown away.

But sustainability isn't the only reason we love reclaimed materials.

We sell them because they're beautiful.

Age creates surfaces, colors, textures, and imperfections that are almost impossible to manufacture convincingly. No two antique doors are exactly alike. Reclaimed flooring carries evidence of its previous life. Old stone becomes smoother under generations of footsteps.

You don't have to manufacture character when it's already there.

The "Green" in Green Pirogue

Using antique architectural materials in new construction is sustainability in one of its most authentic forms.

Long before sustainability became a marketing term, these materials were simply built to last. Old-growth lumber, hand-forged iron, solid stone, and century-old doors have already proven their durability through generations of use. Putting them back to work in new homes preserves the materials, energy, and craftsmanship already invested in them rather than starting over with something new.

Reusing architectural materials also means less waste, less demand for newly manufactured products, and fewer irreplaceable materials ending up in landfills. A reclaimed beam doesn't need to become mulch because the building it came from is gone. An old limestone floor doesn't stop being useful because the house around it has changed.

And sustainability doesn't have to mean compromise.

We believe some of the most sustainable materials are also some of the most beautiful. Their wear, variation, and patina are things that can't be convincingly manufactured. They are evidence of a material that has already lived a life and is ready for another one.

For us, that's what the "Green" in Green Pirogue means: finding good things that already exist, preserving what makes them special, and giving them a place in the homes being built today.

Collected Abroad. Brought Home to Louisiana.

Louisiana has its own long tradition of building with materials that were meant to last, and we think old-world architectural materials feel particularly at home here.

Green Pirogue is based in Baton Rouge and serves homeowners and the design and building community throughout South Louisiana, while also shipping architectural antiques and reclaimed materials to projects across the country.

Our Baton Rouge showroom is meant to be explored. Come look through the doors. Walk on the stone. Dig through the objects. Ask where something came from.

You may come looking for a particular piece.

You may find something you didn't know you needed.

Either way, we hope you leave with something worth keeping.