Crowley Louisiana Post Office 1913

Crowley went from 420 people in 1890 to about 3,000 in 1898 and 6,000 in 1904, and it had been the seat of the new Acadia Parish since 1887. By 1913 it had a federal building to match. The post office is one story of limestone and stucco in Renaissance Revival dress, with a hip roof, a full entablature and Doric columns, some engaged and some freestanding. It stands among rice mills along the railroad and a town of six hotels by 1898. The brick Southern Pacific depot of 1902, trimmed in wrought iron, belongs to the same district.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana Oil and Gas Park — 18 mi
  The roadside park at Jennings where Louisiana's oil industry began in 1901, with a replica derrick, a pioneers' plaque and Gator Chateau.
• Prairie Acadian Cultural Center — 20 mi
  A National Park Service center in Eunice on the Cajun prairie, with exhibits on the Acadians who settled the prairies, a Courir de Mardi Gras display, free music and cooking demonstrations, and the shuttered Liberty Theatre nearby.
• Vermilionville — 22 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 28 mi
  A heritage park in Opelousas built around the Venus House of about 1791, the home of a free Creole woman of color, Marie Francois Venus, with an old schoolhouse, Methodist church and the visitor center's zydeco music exhibit.

More markers nearby

• Crowley (North Avenue F) — steps away
• Senator John F. Kennedy Presidential Campaign Speech — 0.2 mi
• Miller Stadium — 0.5 mi
• David L. & Jeanette Ross May House — 0.6 mi