Scottish Rite Cathedral

The cathedral was designed in 1915 and finished on July 1, 1917, with a grand opening on November 12. Its Beaux Arts shell holds a three-level auditorium seating 500, a banquet hall, a kitchen, a Masonic library, offices and a DeMolay room. Part of the building has long housed a children's speech and language clinic that offers charity services. Architect Edward Neild, a Scottish Rite member himself, went on to design the Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri, for a president who chose him. The Register listed the cathedral in 1986.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — steps away
  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 — 0.8 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 — 2.8 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

• Old B'nai Zion Temple — steps away
• Strand Theatre — steps away
• Jefferson Hotel — steps away
• Bishop Leonidas Polk — steps away