Cooley House, Monroe, LA

Front and side view of the Cooley House 

I was invited by Helen Vanderhoeven to meet at the Cooley House at 1400 South Grand Street in Monroe, LA with a group of wonderful women.  Laverne Bodron and Jorenda Stone spoke to the group about the Cooley House.  The talks covered the background of Monroe in the 1920's, the Cooley family and the architect Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony Griffin who was also an architect.  The talk included a tour of the house which is currently being restored and is on the National Register of Historic Places in the US.  The house is especially significant because it represents a mixture of Griffin's designs in the US and in Australia.

http://www.cooleyhouse.org/