Huey P. Long House

This is the only house Huey Long ever had built for himself, and he took a personal interest in it. Builder Gilman McConnell finished it in 1926 as a two-story Spanish Revival house: stucco over hollow tile, a Ludowici tile roof, a lot of less than an acre. Long moved in with his family that year and left in 1928 for Baton Rouge as governor. The house stayed in the family into the 1970s, and it joined the National Register on August 15, 1991. An earlier Long house on Laurel Street, also listed, has been destroyed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 1.5 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 — 2.2 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 — 2.5 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 — 2.9 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

• Centenary College of Louisiana — 0.3 mi
• C.E. Byrd High School — 0.6 mi
• Josh Logan Home — 0.9 mi
• Masonic Temple — 1.1 mi