ARCHITECTURE INFORMATION:
Ouachita Parish-Monroe.
Frances Hotel, 117 Jackson Street.
Architect: Wyatt C. Hedrick.
Completed: 1930 Cost: $ unknown (privately built). Part of Downtown Monroe Historic District established in 1986 (District #86002202). Current use is offices of Housing Authority of the City of Monroe.
Sources: Ouachita Parish Library.
1930s Images: 1 pic
Neville High School, 600 Forsythe.
Architect: Merl. L. Padgett
Completed: 1931 Cost: $ unknown.
Historian’s Note: Placed on National Register of Historical Places in 1985 (Building #85000973).
Sources: Ouachita Parish Library.
1930s Images: 1 pic
Brown Hall, Ouachita Parish Junior College (now University of Louisiana-Monroe). Architect: James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect of the Treasury and J.W. Smith and Associates.
Completed: 1931. Cost: $ unknown.
Historian’s Note:
Sources: Ouachita Parish Library.
1930s Images: 1 pic
United States Courthouse and Post Office, 201 Jackson Street.
Architect: unknown but probably J.W. Smith and Associates.
Completed: 1931. Cost: $ unknown.
Historian’s Note:
Sources: Ouachita Parish Library.
1930s Images: 1 pic
Gym, Ouachita High School, 100 Bry Street (now Ouachita Parish School Board offices). Architect: H.H. Land.
Completed: 1938. Cost: $108,979.
Historian’s Note:
Sources:
1930s Images: 0
Northeast Center of Louisiana State University (now University of Louisiana-Monroe). Architect: J.W. Smith and Associates.
Completed: 1939 Cost: $225,683 (two projects).
¨ College library.
¨ Music building.
Historian’s Note: College library is now Bry Hall, University of Louisiana-Monroe (ULM). Music building is now Biedenharn Hall, ULM. Both structures are very similar in design with Biedenharn Hall have less windows than Bry Hall.
Sources: Library, University of Louisiana-Monroe.
1930s Images: 3 Bry Hall; 1 pic Biedenharn Hall
