In the sometimes hoitey-toitey world of historic preservation, “Adaptive Reuse” is tossed about like so many festival Frisbees. It pretty much means what it says…an old building is adapted to another current use to make it useful again. As cool and unique as historic buildings are, they are of little use sitting vacant. Too many […]
Downtown is full of remarkable spaces, and 616 Texas definitely counts as one of them. By 1926 when the building at 616-618 Texas Street was constructed, Zodiag’s had already been a Shreveport institution for 52 years. On September 14th at 7:30 pm., the windows of the ‘new’ Zodiag’s at 616 Texas- filled with ‘Fall Merchandise […]
For a relatively short span of 40 years, Shreveport had a Grand Opera House. The structure, built in 1888, sat at the corner of Texas Street and Edwards Street at the site of the 400 Texas Street office tower today. Though its tenure was short, while it was here, the Grand played host to all […]
Want to own an amazing piece of Shreveport history? This is it- the 4,965 SF Logan Mansion, a 4 bedroom bed-and-breakfast/Airbnb/personal residence whose walls will most definitely tell you some tales. What a history it has. In 1897, 53-year old Lafayette Robert Logan showed Shreveport that he had finally ‘made it.’ Lafayette Robert, more commonly […]
A dynamic new Event Manager at the beautiful, historic Scottish Rite wants you to think about the spaces when planning your next event! Prior to Covid, the building at 725 Cotton Street hosted dozens of events per year. That number fell precipitously with Covid, and has not returned. Lani Bailey hopes to change all that […]
We’re all heard the phrase ‘if walls could talk’ but how about what windows reveal? Over the past several days, the wrappings have come off of two historic rehab projects downtown and what the windows have revealed is pretty awesome. The windows at The Glass Hat Cafe reveal a new restaurant space just waiting on […]
The street signage honoring downtown businesswomen Roberta Minor and Elgin Hill went up this past weekend to the delight on the family and friends on hand. Ms. Minor and Ms. Hill were owners of R & E Beauty Shop at 1232 and later 1233 Milam Street, but beauty wasn’t their only business. They were honored […]
One of the most desirable addresses downtown is the Lofts at 624 at the corner of Louisiana Ave. and Texas Street. The manager called this week to let us know about two rare availabilities that have come open there; a 2 bedroom 1.5 bath, & a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath. For the rest of the […]
If you have driven past 724 McNeil Street, you have seen all the scaffolding there. The one-time Municipal Court Building, now a Verizon Communications Building, is getting a tip to top exterior tuck pointing, repair and waterproofing to protect both the building and the equipment inside. Interior work includes painting, flooring, new bathrooms and new […]
It’s all over but some flooring installation and the grand opening for the new spaces at 427/429/431 Crockett Street. It has been an interesting ride for General Contractor John Cush and Architect/Owner Jason Cram. Historic rehabs always bring special surprises, but surprises here included not enough electrical capacity (not at just the buildings, but for […]
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