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Hattie Lee Davidson

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Madison Courthouse Jail

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Ouachita Parish

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