Your COVID Memories in a Time Capsule
In a popular 1970s ballad, Jim Croce sang about memories, of time kept in a bottle. The owners of...
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Category: Downtown History BLOG
Andress Ford’s New Life
April 16, 2020 Update: Construction crews at 717 Crockett are on the job, first tackling...
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From Montgomery Ward to Artspace: History in 5
Given as a History in 5 talk at the June 2019 Downtown Artwalk. Those of you who have heard my...
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Railroads Without Locomotives?
By Dave Bland, Editor, Red River Valley Railroad Historical Society Newsletter & Board Member,...
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Downtown Scavenger Hunt
We know that you are looking for things to do that provide proper social distancing. We have just...
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The Remarkable Life of Mary Bennett Cane
When you think of Shreveport, you think of one Captain Henry Miller Shreve. Shreve’s battles...
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Mr. Moossy and the Order of Otters
The one thing that is certain when purchasing a building downtown is that there will be at least...
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The downtown Shreveport Commercial Historic District is nothing if not interesting; filled with all kinds of architectural types. From two story office buildings constructed to house cotton ‘factors’ (merchants) in...
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Waddell A Truss- Our Bridge to History
HGTV fanatics will remember a show called ‘If Walls Could Talk’ that focused on fun facts buried...
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A Historical Mystery on Cotton Street
For years, a set of concrete columns sitting adjacent to the 400 block of Cotton Street in...
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From Hardware to Lofts: The Story of Ogilvie
In the sometimes hoitey-toitey world of historic preservation, “Adaptive Reuse” is tossed about...
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Take a Tour of the Caddo Courthouse
It’s likely that you pass the Caddo Parish Courthouse often and have gotten so used to it...
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