Old CNB Building

The bank's first skyscraper, finished in 1910 or 1911 by the Little Rock firm Mann and Stern, rose ten stories in the Chicago style, with Sullivanesque terra cotta on its top floors. It was the tallest building in Shreveport for about fourteen years, until the 17-story Slattery Building, by the same architects, opened in 1924. Commercial National stayed until 1940. Huey P. Long, early in his career as a private lawyer, represented a former vice president in litigation against the bank. Remodeling in the 1970s altered the ground floor.

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 — 0.5 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 — 0.6 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 — 3.2 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

• First City Market — steps away
• Cane & Bennett's Trading Post — steps away
• CNB Building — steps away
• Shreve Square — steps away