W.L. "Jack" Howard Theatre

W. L. Jack Howard, a Union Parish native, was Monroe's mayor from 1956 to 1972 and again from 1976 to 1978, and the theatre carries his name inside the city's Civic Center complex. It seats more than 2,200. Its neighbors include the arena, an equestrian pavilion, the Monroe Convention Center, renamed in 2021 for Abe Pierce III, and the conference hall named for B. D. Robinson, so the complex reads as a short list of Monroe civic figures. The marker was placed in 2004 by the city's mayor and council.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 0.9 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 — 1.7 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 — 3.2 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 — 5.1 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

• B.D. Robinson Conference Hall — steps away
• The Monroe Civic Center Arena — steps away
• The Honorable Abe Edward Pierce III Convention Center — steps away
• The Savoy Ballroom — 0.3 mi