Old Bossier Municipal Building

Half of downtown Bossier City burned in 1925, and the years after brought a modern water system, the first city park and a new city hall. This building, completed in 1926, is read as the moment the town came of age. Jones, Roessle, Olschner and Wiener gave it a villa-like, asymmetrical shape under a low, broad roof with widely spaced brackets, with round-arched windows lighting the council chamber. Its style is mainly Renaissance Revival. It once held offices, an auditorium, a jail and a fire station; the Bossier Arts Council works here now.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring Street Museum — 1.1 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.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 1.3 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.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 1.5 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 — 3.9 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

• Henry Watkins Allen / Battery 10 — 0.6 mi
• Gen. E. Kirby Smith Residence — 0.6 mi
• Cane & Bennett's Trading Post — 0.8 mi
• Central Station — 0.9 mi