Hutchinson Building

Edward F. Neild designed the Hutchinson Building in 1910 as an early skyscraper built for a department store: six brick stories with a skeletal facade of windows and structural members, terra cotta ornament and Late Gothic arches on the sixth floor. The storefront has been replaced, but the original cast-iron columns survive behind it. It stands at Texas and Marshall streets. Neild went on to design the Caddo Parish courthouse, the Scottish Rite Cathedral and the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum.

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 — 0.5 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 — 3.1 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

• Caddo Parish Courthouse — steps away
• Shreve Memorial Library — steps away
• Downtown YMCA — steps away
• CNB Building — steps away