Masur Museum of Art

The house is a modified Tudor estate on the southern edge of downtown Monroe, along the Ouachita River. According to 64 Parishes, Clarence and Mabel Slagle built it in 1929, with Indiana limestone walls and a roof of Pennsylvania blue slate. Wikipedia describes Slagle as a lumberman and says he named the house Grey Gables. Inside, the original floors, crown molding, arched doorways and fireplaces remain.

Slagle died in 1934, and the house passed to Sigmund and Beatrice Masur, who bought it in the 1930s. Their children donated the family home to the City of Monroe in 1963 so that the area would have a fine art museum. Volunteers and docents started the exhibitions, competitions and a permanent collection, and the Twin City Art Foundation formed in 1974 to support the museum. The partnership between the city and the foundation continues, and the museum is a division of Monroe's Department of Community Affairs.

The collection is about 500 works, mostly of twentieth-century movements and regional artists, and the Annual Juried Competition, judged each year by a different guest juror, is its longest tradition; the 64th is taking submissions from October 1 to December 16, 2026. The address is 1400 South Grand Street. The museum's site lists Tuesday to Friday hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday hours of noon to 5 p.m., with the galleries closed for installation from November 1 to December 3, 2026.