Jefferson Hotel

B & T Construction Company built the four-story brick hotel in 1922 to a design by H. E. Schwartz, and it served travelers from Union Depot, which stood across the street until it was demolished in 1972. Alterations to the exterior have been minimal since construction. The National Register listed the hotel on July 27, 1989, and in 1997 it became a contributing property of the Shreveport Commercial Historic District when that district's boundaries were expanded.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 0.3 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 — 0.4 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 — 2.9 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

• Scottish Rite Cathedral — steps away
• Old B'nai Zion Temple — steps away
• Central Station — steps away
• Strand Theatre — steps away