Caddo Parish Courthouse

The courthouse in use today is Edward F. Neild's eight-story limestone and concrete building at 501 Texas Street, a Classical Revival and Moderne design. The Glassell-Wilson Company built it between 1926 and 1928. The building it replaced dated from 1890 to 1891, designed by L. W. Weathers and built by Moodie and Ellis. A remodel in 1970 and 1971 by Somdal-Smitherman-Sorensen-Sherman Associates, with The Werner Company as contractor, left the Parish District Court inside, and former jail cells survive on the seventh story.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring Street Museum — steps away
  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.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 0.4 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.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 0.6 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 3.0 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

• Shreve Memorial Library — steps away
• Selber Bros — steps away
• Holy Trinity Catholic Church — steps away
• Strand Theatre — steps away