City guide

architecture in Shreveport.

3 buildings worth a detour, each with what to look for. Open them on the map, or walk them with the iPhone app, which collects each one you photograph.

Styles you'll see Streamline Moderne Renaissance Revival International Style

Notable buildings

Worth a stop when you're nearby.

Streamline Moderne

Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium

The Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium is a performance and meeting venue built between 1926 and 1929 during the administration of Mayor Lee Emmett Thomas as a memorial to the servicemen of World War I. Designed by architects Samuel G. Wiener Sr. and Seymour Van Os of the Shreveport firm Jones, Roessle, Olschner & Wiener, it was built by the local Ashton Glassell Company. It's nationally significant as the home of the Louisiana Hayride radio program, hosted by Frank Page.

Photo: Michael Barera , CC BY-SA 4.0

Hidden gems

Fine buildings that fewer people seek out.

International Style

The Fairfield Building

Samuel G. Wiener

The Fairfield Building is an International Style structure designed by Samuel G. Wiener, a noted modernist architect of Shreveport. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Renaissance Revival

United States Post Office and Courthouse

James Knox Taylor

The United States Post Office and Courthouse was built in 1910 in Italian Renaissance style by James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury, with James A. Wetmore. It served historically as both a courthouse and a post office until federal offices vacated the building in 1974. It is now a branch of the Shreve Memorial Library.

Photo: Billy Hathorn at en.wikipedia , CC BY-SA 3.0