In late 2019, in the days just before ‘Covid’ became a household word, the Downtown Shreveport Development Corporation, a non-profit dedicated to encouraging business and revitalizing downtown with a goal of saving our inventory of historic buildings, received the donation of the historic Rubenstein’s Department Store buildings. The Lanford and Rubenstein buildings that comprise 513 […]
In the early 1920s, Cotton Street in downtown Shreveport was not as it looks today. The street wasn’t far removed from the former waterfront of Silver Lake (‘Lake Street’) and was filled with a variety of homes, from stately mansions to smaller single family to those with rooms for rent. In 1919, 611 Cotton was the […]
The Shreveport Railroad Museum, co-located at 142 North Common with the Shreveport Water Works Museum, is planning a celebration January 30, 2022 to debut their new HO model railroad. The new model train layout features a scale buildings that would have been downtown in the 1940s – 60s, and took roughly six months to complete. […]
It’s been a wonderfully weird and mostly fun year for Jim Malsch, the owner of 717 Crockett Street. His rehab of the former Andress Ford into the Andress Artist and Entrepreneur Center was smooth and seamless, made easier with the talented design and construction professionals he had hired to turn the former blighted building into […]
Texas Avenue property owner Tom Monick likes precise things. This is no surprise as his career as a Professional Engineer has shown the importance of precision in making things work, insuring that things are structurally sound and that they run on time. It is also no surprise that he would be intrigued by the Swiss’ […]
Supply chain issues, be darned. The lack of furniture that was absolutely, positively supposed to be in a couple of weeks ago isn’t stopping new Uptown Bar & Lounge owner Ryan Williams, who is renting furniture because the ‘show must go on’ and go on it will! The Grand Opening is tonight! Uptown will be […]
The morning I called Drayden Dunn, he was at the pediatrician with son Christian, a brand new 1st grader fighting a fever and stomach bug. Wife Brittney Dunn was calling him, too, asking him to come back inside. It was gearing up to be another busy day in the Dunn household. It’s a rare day […]
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Chances are good that you have seen activity over the past month at 421 Market/220 Texas St., the building most know as the ‘old Dees Photo.’ The building has occupied a […]
One of the most famous historical figures in Shreveport is a madam named Annie McCune, which in and of itself is a remarkable story. So, too, is that Shreveport was one of only two cities in the Louisiana that had a legal Red Light District in which the business of prostitution was purveyed. Shreveport’s Red […]
On the pretty, tree-lined 200 block of Milam Street is the office of UL Coleman Companies. The building is a beautiful example of something historic given new life and an updated look. The building, like downtown in general, has seen highs and lows over the years. In the 1970s, the building and several around it, […]
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