Crowley (North Parkerson Avenue)

The district listed in 1982 spreads over about 210 acres of downtown, with some 270 buildings put up between 1887 and the early 1930s. Its nomination called Crowley the largest and most complete late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century town in a seven-parish area, and the only one where both the commercial streets and the neighborhoods survive intact. Most buildings are two or three stories, so the seven-story First National Bank of 1920 stands out. Styles run from Queen Anne to Bungalow. The district's boundaries were enlarged in 2024.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana Oil and Gas Park — 17 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 — 19 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 — 23 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

• Senator John F. Kennedy Presidential Campaign Speech — 0.5 mi
• Crowley (North Avenue F) — 0.6 mi
• David L. & Jeanette Ross May House — 0.6 mi
• Crowley Louisiana Post Office 1913 — 0.7 mi