Josh Logan Home

Joshua Logan was born in Texarkana in 1908, and the family later lived with his grandparents in Mansfield, the Louisiana town where he set his play The Wisteria Trees. At Princeton he was Triangle Club president in his senior year and joined the University Players, a summer company that included James Stewart, Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan. He shared a 1950 Pulitzer Prize for co-writing South Pacific and was nominated for Oscars as director of Picnic and Sayonara. He won eight Tony Awards and died in New York in 1988.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 1.4 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.
• Spring Street Museum — 1.8 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.
• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 2.1 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 Water Works Museum — 2.1 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.

More markers nearby

• Old Agudath Achim Synagogue — 0.6 mi
• Masonic Temple — 0.6 mi
• World's First Shriners Hospital — 0.7 mi
• Centenary College of Louisiana — 0.9 mi