ARCHITECTURE INFORMATION:
Madison Parish-Tallulah:
Tallulah Book Club Building.
Architect: William Stanton.
Completed: 1930. Cost: $ unknown (privately built).
Historian’s Note: Placed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1991 (Building #91001660). Tallulah Book Club formed in 1902 and lasted until 1984. The lady members of the Club sold baked goods door to door and held cake sales to raise the money to build the structure. After 1984, the building was sold to the LeBlanc Research Corporation. Later it was sold and currently is a church.
Sources: Madison Parish Library.
1930s Images: 1 pic
Bloom’s Arcade, 102 Snyder Street.
Architect: N.W. Overstreet.
Completed: 1931. Cost: $ unknown (privately built).
Historian’s Note: Placed on National Register of Historical Places in 1989 (Building #88003214). Considered the first covered retail mall in the United States.
Sources: Madison Parish Library.
1930s Images: 1 pic
Gymnasium/ Auditorium, Tallulah High School, 600 Bayou Drive
Architect: J.W. Smith and Associates.
Completed: 1939. Cost: $99,654 (two projects including “school repairs”).
Historian’s Note:
Sources: Madison Parish Library.
1930s Images: 1 pic
Courthouse, Madison Parish.
Architect: D. Curtis Smith.
Completed: 1939. Cost: $134,790.
Historian’s Note: Locally known as the “new” courthouse. The older courthouse built circa 1890 stands near the 1939 one.
Sources: Madison Parish Library.
1930s Images: 1 pic
