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The Bright-Lamkin-Easterling Home

The yellow home in the foreground of both pictures is known as the Bright-Lamkin-Easterling home, located at 918 Jackson Street. The other home was owned by Mayor Henry Bernstein. The Bright-Lamkin-Easterling home was built by railroad tycoon William Bright in 1890. He had sold his railroad (The H.C. & A.) to Jay Gould and invested in a home on the fashionable side of Monroe. It cost $7000 to build. It is now on the National Register.

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    Mary H.

    This house is absolutely gorgeous and in need of repair/refurbishing because it’s gone unattended for years! It could be a wonderful home or a learning center for those who want to show off Monroe’s glory days and life in the late 1890’s. It’s beautiful ❤️ I always dreamed of having a house like this one day with all the character and charm that was a stunning beauty inside and out.

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    […] Louisiana, the Powerball had risen to over one billion, so we bought many tickets, and visited the Bright Lamkin Easterling Home in all of it’s disrepair, with my promise to the universe that if I won the lottery, I […]

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    ouachitaparishhistory

    I believe it has been bought with plans of making it into a community center!

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