For years, half brothers Samuel G. and William B. Wiener were giants of architecture, both in Shreveport and far beyond. Their vast portfolio of local works include everything from the highly ornamental and more traditional Municipal Auditorium to projects that define the later years of their lives, austere and beautiful International Style homes and buildings […]
There are going to be SO MANY things to see and do on Wednesday, April 3! Enjoy both art and architecture on concurrent crawls, artists, live dance performance, street eats and gourmet ice cream, history and your chance to Sketch the City…and believe me, we’re just getting started! Start at any location and go from […]
In the early 1900s, commerce in Shreveport was focused around downtown. The city center developed rapidly and the buildings that sprang up housed any number of important (and maybe not so) businesses. The Ardis Building—then Ardis-Johnson Building, and today the Johnson Building—was Shreveport’s third major office building and one of the largest skyscrapers dotting […]
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