Dodd College

The college carried the name of its founder, Monroe E. Dodd, a Tennessee native who became pastor of Shreveport's First Baptist Church in 1912 and stayed about 38 years. A veteran of the Spanish-American War and World War I, he served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1934 and 1935 and sat on the Baptist World Alliance executive committee. His women's junior college opened in 1927 and had a chapter of the Sigma Iota Chi sorority. Centenary College took it over in the early 1940s. Dodd retired in 1950 and died in Long Beach, California, in 1952.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 0.8 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.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 2.7 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.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 2.8 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 — 3.1 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.

More markers nearby

• Huey P. Long House — 0.7 mi
• C.E. Byrd High School — 0.8 mi
• Centenary College of Louisiana — 1.0 mi
• A.C. Steere School — 1.0 mi