A.C. Steere School

A. C. Steere was born in Shreveport in 1879, studied at Vanderbilt, and spent 1906 to 1908 in Los Angeles learning the real estate trade before coming home. In the 1920s he and his partner Elias Goldstein designed neighborhoods and parks for residents of all incomes, naming Betty Virginia Park for Goldstein's daughter Betty and his own daughter Virginia, and Johnette Street for his second wife. In the mid-1920s he donated land in Broadmoor for schools and recreation. He died in 1930, and the school that had opened the year before was renamed for him.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 1.2 mi
  A free art museum and 40 acres of azalea gardens in Shreveport, founded in 1946 on Rodessa oil money, with Remington and Russell, an Audubon folio and no photography allowed.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 3.4 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Spring Street Museum — 3.6 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 3.8 mi
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.

More markers nearby

• Dodd College — 1.0 mi
• Huey P. Long House — 1.2 mi
• Centenary College of Louisiana — 1.4 mi
• C.E. Byrd High School — 1.7 mi