Site of First City Hall of West Monroe

The old city hall cost about $13,000. Built in 1907 by Frank Masling and finished in 1908, it was brick in front with concrete trim, 80 by 37 feet, with rooms all the same size around a central staircase. The marshal, tax collector, fire department and jail were downstairs; the mayor, secretary, treasurer and council chamber were upstairs. Fire destroyed the building in 1964 and it was razed the next year. The bell, rung for years at West Monroe High School after touchdowns, now hangs in a replica bell tower on the original site, in Antique Alley.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 1.1 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 1.2 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 4.1 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 6.0 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.

More markers nearby

• Webb Pierce — steps away
• Don Juan Filhiol Historic Preservation District — 0.3 mi
• The Ouachita Candy Company Building — 0.3 mi
• Art Alley — 0.5 mi