McDaniel Street Historic District

Monroe's McDaniel Street district is a residential neighborhood of about 32 acres southwest of the downtown commercial core, stretching west from South Broad Street. Buildings date from the 1830s to the 1930s and include large houses on landscaped lots, First Baptist Church and the Old Baptist Cemetery, where graves date to the 1820s. The Briscoe-Selman-Pollock House, built in the 1830s and given a monumental portico in 1901, anchors the western end on a small hill. The McDaniel-Tichenor House, an Italianate villa designed by William Winstead Thomas for Governor Henry D. McDaniel, was remodeled in 1930 in Neo-classical style by Francis Boddie Warfield. The district was home to two governors, McDaniel and Clifford Walker, to industrial figures such as George C. Selman, and to university leaders tied to Mercer and Tulane. Its architecture, informal landscaping and civic history show the neighborhood's standing as the home of Monroe's leading citizens.