Bailey Hotel

The hotel's dining room is where Bunkie's Rotary Club held its founding meeting in 1925. It also hosted weddings, luncheons and the Bridge Club, and that was the point of the place: a town parlor one block west of the Texas and Pacific depot. Its rivals were the Carnahan, a frame hotel favored by railroad workers, and the Southern, gone by 1923. Traveling salesmen did business from its rooms and servicemen slept there in both world wars. It kept taking guests until July 1970, then served as a contractor's office and stood vacant.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 13 mi
  The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Marksville, built around the Tunica Treasure that the tribe won back in court.
• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 14 mi
  The Marksville courthouse where Solomon Northup was freed in January 1853, with a marker and a 2026 bronze that shows him rising from the mud.
• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 21 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 29 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.

More markers nearby

• Bunkie Post Office — steps away
• Cleco Originated in Bunkie, LA — steps away
• How Bunkie Got Its Name — steps away
• Bunkie Depot Museum — steps away