Pleasant Hall

Ruffin G. Pleasant, born in Union Parish in 1871, practiced law in Shreveport and was city attorney from 1902 to 1908, then attorney general from 1912 to 1916 before serving as governor from 1916 to 1920. After leaving office he returned to his Shreveport practice, at first backed Huey Long, then led the anti-Long faction of the state Democrats. His wife Anne Ector Pleasant, whom he married in 1906, founded Pleasant Hall as a coeducational private school and sued Long over her arrest on false charges when she tried to examine state records. He died in 1937.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 1.2 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 — 1.4 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 — 1.9 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.
• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 2.5 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.

More markers nearby

• Masonic Temple — steps away
• Old Agudath Achim Synagogue — 0.4 mi
• Pete Youree Confederate Monument — 0.6 mi
• Josh Logan Home — 0.7 mi