Shreve Square

The Texas Street Bridge that cuts through Shreve Square was built by the Weatherly Construction Company of Kansas City, with work starting in September 1931 and traffic crossing in September 1933. It is a K-truss with riveted connections, 2,982 feet long counting its approaches, with a 420-foot main span, and it is named for governors Huey P. Long and Oscar K. Allen, under whom it was built. It replaced a ferry on the US 80 route. A rehabilitation in 2019 left the span in better shape than other Louisiana K-trusses, several of which face demolition.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring Street Museum — 0.3 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 — 0.7 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.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 0.7 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.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 3.4 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

• Cane & Bennett's Trading Post — steps away
• Old CNB Building — steps away
• First City Market — steps away
• Henry Watkins Allen / Battery 10 — steps away