Huie Dellmon House

The house outlasted the neighborhood around the paper. It went up in 1897 as a one-story Queen Anne cottage, the year Myrtle Huie was born, and a 1933 remodel gave it red brick and a Colonial Revival front. Her father Henarie and his uncle Edgar McCormick were the printers behind the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, first issued on March 17, 1883. Most other buildings tied to the paper and to her were later demolished, largely for the enlarged Red River levee. Today the house holds offices and meeting rooms, and the parish library keeps archives above the garage.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — steps away
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
• Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site — 1.1 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.
• Kent Plantation House — 2.4 mi
  Rapides Parish's oldest known standing building, a Creole house with a February tour and a 2023 memorial that put the enslaved first.
• Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum — 4.9 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.

More markers nearby

• Alexandria Library — steps away
• Rapides Parish Library — steps away
• Arna Wendell Bontemps Home — steps away
• The James Wade Bolton House — steps away