Downtown Scavenger Hunt
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Category: Downtown History BLOG
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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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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The Story of the Arlington Hotel
On Wednesday, April 3, 2019, the Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commission voted unanimously to...
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The Zodiag Building- Past Into Present
Downtown is full of remarkable spaces, and 616 Texas definitely counts as one of them. By 1926...
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Andress Ford’s New Art-Filled Life
The once-remarkably ornate building that sits at 717 Crockett has for years been a sad and...
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Downtown History – The Story of 708 Texas Street
** Each month at the Downtown Artwalk, the DDA’s Liz Swaine gives a short ‘History in...
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The Music Never Dies: the Calanthean Temple’s Rich, Melodic History
The now freestanding building in Shreveport Common looks like a typical abandoned structure, probably taken as an old financial institution or hardware store by passersby. Its deteriorating halls and gaping rectangles where the windows once warded off rain and wind call to the loneliness of vacancy.
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