Historic Walking Tour of Lake Charles, Louisiana
Courthouse- also built after the 1910 fire Every Saturday, there is a small Farmer's Market in the parking lot of the historic City Hall building. After picking up some delicious local grapefruit, we started out on a walking tour of the historic city center. The old city hall building is now an arts and cultural center and we enjoyed a traveling exhibit on the circus on the 3rd floor. The building was built in 1911 after a fire destroyed most of Lake Charles' downtown. It has an Italianesque style and is a very neat building both inside and out. Across the street is the courthouse. It is fashioned to look like "The Rotunda" a building in northern Italy. We looked up the original building and sure enough, they look very similar! The domed roof is made of copper. We did not go inside this building, but Landon enjoyed the cannon that was on the front lawn. Catholic Cathedral Around the corner from these iconic building was this gorgeous cathedral that wa...
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