Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Gordon Hotel is a historic hotel building located at 100-110 East Vermilion Street in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States.. Originally built in 1904 by George Knapp and designed by Favrot and Livaudais, the hotel was a three-story brick and stucco building in Renaissance Revival style.
J. Minos Simon, late Lafayette attorney (D) [citation needed] Eric Skrmetta (Class of 1981), member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission (R) [122] Patricia Haynes Smith (graduate studies), Democratic state representative from Baton Rouge since 2008 [123] Tom Stagg, U.S. District Court judge from Shreveport, former political activist (R) [124]
Lafayette Parish is a part of the region of Acadiana in southern Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 269 square miles (700 km 2), of which 269 square miles (700 km 2) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2) (0.2%) is water. [6]
Borden's Ice Cream Shoppe is a historic ice cream parlor on Johnston Street in Lafayette, Louisiana, built in 1940 to sell Borden ice creams. In 1981, then owner, lifelong Lafayette resident Flora Levy, died. Her will stipulated a large bequest, including the ice cream parlor, to the University of Louisiana Lafayette's Foundation. The ...
The Current first appeared in April 2017 as a glossy print monthly published by IND Media, the company behind The IND Monthly (previously The Independent Weekly), a Lafayette alternative newspaper. With a print run of 10,000 copies, it was branded as "Lafayette's journal of culture, commentary and ideas." [2] [3]
Alexandria Hall houses the administrative offices and some academic departments at Louisiana Christian University. Richard W. Norton Memorial Library at Louisiana Christian University Guinn Auditorium, named for former LC President Earl Guinn H.O. West Physical Education Building is named for Minden businessman and retailer Herman O. West (1900–1981), who was named LC board president in 1958.
In 2010, [17] the U.S. Census Bureau reported there were 273,738 people, 89,536 households, and 61,826 families residing within metropolitan Lafayette. From 2010 to 2015, the Lafayette metropolitan area outpaced the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area in North Louisiana by population, becoming the third largest metropolitan area in the state.
Selden Jennings Coffin, class of 1858, first registrar of Lafayette, biographer of the college, professor of mathematics and astronomy; William McMurtrie, class of 1871 and first Ph.D. in chemistry awarded at Lafayette (1875); Chief Chemist for the United States Department of Agriculture, 1873–78; president of American Chemical Society in 1900