Alexandria Hall

Alexandria Hall went up in 1920, drawn on blueprints dated August 28 of that year, with C. Scott Yeager of Alexandria among its associate architects. It is a three-story brick neoclassical block with a 23-bay front and a tall pedimented portico. In a survey of 546 old buildings in Pineville it was one of 25 local landmarks, and with its end pavilions it is judged the grandest of three buildings with a full portico. Around 1980 its second-story entrance and wide staircase were removed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site — 1.3 mi
  Two Confederate earthen forts on the Red River at Pineville, built with enslaved labor and never attacked, beside the remains of Bailey's Dam.
• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 1.5 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
• Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum — 3.4 mi
  A National Guard museum in a replica WWII barracks at Camp Beauregard, built around the huge 1940-41 war games in Central Louisiana. Free.
• Kent Plantation House — 3.6 mi
  Rapides Parish's oldest known standing building, a Creole house with a February tour and a 2023 memorial that put the enslaved first.

More markers nearby

• Louisiana College — steps away
• Alexandria National Cemetery — 0.5 mi
• Central Louisiana State Hospital Cemetery — 0.7 mi
• The Foot of Red Hill — 0.7 mi