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The Hotel Monroe photo courtesy of The Hotel Monroe Some hotels are new builds, but The Hotel Monroe is more of a comeback story — where two historic buildings, old souls with stories to tell, are reborn as Monroe, Louisiana’s newest boutique stay. It all began a decade ago when Michael and Christie Echols pu

The Blue Room, circa 1930s, at the NuWray Hotel ...