Baton Rouge is moving forward in relocating the State Office Building from Fairfield Avenue to 500 Fannin Street in downtown Shreveport. On Wednesday, July 20, the Louisiana Architect Selection Board chose Shreveport architectural, environmental and consulting firm Newman Marchive, Inc. to handle the demolition and abatement phase of the $70m revamp of the building and […]
After a discussion that went in several directions, the City Council this week opted to preserve the status quo on bar hours throughout the city. Two ordinances, one up for vote on July 12; the other to be voted on July 26, looked to either 1.) leave downtown bar hours at the current 6 am […]
A shell of a building adjacent to the Antioch Baptist Church on Texas Avenue is famous in its own right. 1053-55 Texas Avenue housed a former Masonic Hall and the Pla-moor Club. Both of these, and a variety of professional offices there, played a central role in a stretch of buildings important to Black Shreveporters […]
This was a good week for both the history and the future of an important block in downtown. The 500 block of Milam Street sits in the heart of the Central Business District. Across from the Caddo Parish Courthouse, for 60 years it was the home to the Rubenstein’s Department Store. For the past 35 […]
1229 Texas Avenue is not a building that would generally elicit any response other than ‘Oooh’, and not in a good way. Many downtown buildings- from the former Sears Department Store at 624 Texas Street, to the Interstate Wholesale Furniture at 816 McNeil- covered all their windows once air conditioning became available. Apparently, cooled air […]
The crew with Energy Services and Products Corp., the Tampa, Fla., company hired to remove the Confederate monument at the Caddo Parish Courthouse, are making quick work of the removal. Today (Thursday, June 9), they removed and wrapped the unknown Confederate soldier statue that had been at the top of the monument for transit. The […]
Lena Thomason, former owner of Lena’s Shoe Gallery at 501 Milam Street, passed away the week of March 28, 2022 at the age of 94. Her funeral is planned for Sunday, April 2, at Rose Neath Southside at 2529 Southside Dr., Shreveport. Visitation is planned for noon- 2 pm, services at 2. The family invites […]
(Please contact us with details of any support/fundraisers downtown that you are aware of.) It is a simple question but a difficult one. How do you help when something so awful that it seems beyond imagining is happening before your eyes on your computer, television and smart phone? Perhaps the best answer is- you do what […]
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There is a building that sits in the middle of the 600 block of Milam Street. An elegant-looking place, with marble on the facade and giant gold rings on the double doors. Those who remember a little about downtown’s department store past will know immediately that the gold rings are a giveaway as the building […]
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