Calanthean Temple

Wikipedia describes the Calanthean Temple, finished in 1923 for a women's group of the Order of Calanthe, by the architect Edward Neild, who also drew the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Its rooftop garden hosted concerts by well-known Black musicians. Offices for Black physicians and lawyers filled the building, and the Freeman & Harris Cafe operated there for more than 70 years. It stood in St. Paul's Bottoms, where Black Shreveporters ran hotels, offices and saloons in a segregated city; the district was later renamed Ledbetter Heights for the blues singer.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — steps away
  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 — 0.6 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.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 0.9 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 — 2.6 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

• Bishop Leonidas Polk — steps away
• James Burton — steps away
• Oakland Cemetery — 0.2 mi
• Old B'nai Zion Temple — 0.3 mi