Work Begins Soon to Move Monument
Time is drawing nigh for the removal of the Confederate Monument at the Caddo Parish Courthouse....
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Category: Downtown History BLOG
State Offices to Move Downtown
The Times broke the story this week that the State of Louisiana offices currently housed at 1525...
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Work Begins on Old Galilee Baptist Church
The contract has been awarded and the work is underway on stabilizing the historic Old Galilee...
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Downtown’s Department Stores
Lena Thomason, former owner of Lena’s Shoe Gallery at 501 Milam Street, passed away the week...
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Downtown Supports #Ukraine
(Please contact us with details of any support/fundraisers downtown that you are aware of.) It is...
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Logan Mansion Celebrates 125th Birthday!
In 1897, 53-year old Lafayette Robert Logan showed Shreveport that he had finally ‘made...
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Lights, Camera, More Lights!
It’s a flipping of a switch that we have been waiting years to see… and it’s...
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Life Before Goldrings (and After)
There is a building that sits in the middle of the 600 block of Milam Street. An elegant-looking...
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Rubenstein Redux: Old Building, New Life
In late 2019, in the days just before ‘Covid’ became a household word, the Downtown...
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The History of 611 Cotton Street
In the early 1920s, Cotton Street in downtown Shreveport was not as it looks today. The street...
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Work Continues at 427/429 Crockett
Architect Jason Cram’s small but amazingly energetic crew is making good headway at 427/429...
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All Aboard for Shreveport Railroad Museum!
The Shreveport Railroad Museum, co-located at 142 North Common with the Shreveport Water Works...
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