CNB Building

Commercial National Bank built its 1940 headquarters on a New York scale: thirteen limestone stories rising to a four-story cutaway top, designed by McKim, Mead and White with Samuel Wiener of Shreveport as consulting architect. Stylized eagles once flanked the entrance and were later replaced by a logo. The bank moved here from the ten-story skyscraper it had occupied since 1910. A 1980s bank tower next door is classed as non-contributing in the downtown historic district, while the 1940 building is a contributing one.

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 — 0.5 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 — 3.2 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

• First City Market — steps away
• Shreve Memorial Library — steps away
• Old CNB Building — steps away
• Hutchinson Building — steps away