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The Beauregard Parish Courthouse was the answer to a need for a new Parish. DeRidder beat out Singer for the location of the parish seat.

The Beauregard Parish Courthouse was built at the same time as the Beauregard Parish Jail, by the same people, and completed around the same time in 1915, as directed by the Beauregard Parish Police Jury.

The courthouse and jail are also part of the Historic Downtown district of DeRidder that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Hudson River Lumber Company donated a tract of land to the City of DeRidder. Property that adjoined this tract was owned by the First Baptist Church. The newly formed Beauregard Parish Police Jury, carved out of the old Imperial Calcasieu Parish, purchased the property and a building from the church. Stevens-Nelson of New Orleans was chosen to design a courthouse and jail. Falls City Construction Company was awarded the contract in September 1913. Both buildings were completed in 1915 at a cost of $168,000.

The Clerk is very interested in publishing more historical accounts and photographs from the entire parish on this website. If you have information or photos that you would like to submit please forward them to us at the following address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Historical Beauregard

Historical Pictures from Beauregard Parish
1915 Courthouse and Jail
  This drawing came from a post card depicting the newly completed courthouse and jail.   The Clerk is...

Sepia Sepia Photograph
   This wonderful old photograph of the Courthouse and Jail appears to have been taken around 1914...

Beauregard Parish Courthouse
  The Beauregard Parish Courthouse was the answer to a need for a new Parish. DeRidder beat out...

Post Office WPA Fresco
Post Office WPA Fresco, a type of painting on wet plaster, “Rural Free Deliver."    Mural in fresco style...

Merryville Gunnery Range
  The range was commissioned on October 27, 1943 eight miles southeast of Merryville, approximately 20 miles...

Longville Lumber Co.
  This old photograph of the Longville Lumber Company General Store is dated in the early 1900s.   The...

DeRidder's First Street School - WPA Gem
In response to the stock market crash of 1929 and the hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers,...

Neches Belle Steamboat
  The Neches Belle was a wooden hull packet paddle boat used to move cotton and wool along the...

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