The Arcade Theatre and Miller Building, the Paramount and the Weber Building

The Arcade's best trick was geography. KPLC reports that Texas restricted Sunday performances, so acts played Saturday in New Orleans and came on to Lake Charles, which put Houdini, the Barrymores and the St. Louis Symphony on Ryan Street. The National Register listed the Arcade on July 7, 1978. In 1985, while the theatre was being restored, a fire began on the stage and burned the whole building. The register removed the listing in 2016.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mardi Gras Museum of Imperial Calcasieu — 0.8 mi
  A 6,000-square-foot museum of southwest Louisiana Carnival with about 275 costume mannequins and 14 animated figures, opened in April 2026.
• Imperial Calcasieu Museum — 1.1 mi
  Lake Charles's history museum, founded by the Junior League in 1963, with parish artifacts, Claire Chennault's uniform and the Sallier Oak.
• Sam Houston Jones State Park — 5.4 mi
  A 1,087-acre park on the West Fork of the Calcasieu with longleaf pine, cypress-tupelo swamp, five trails, cabins and kayak rentals.
• Creole Nature Trail Adventure Point — 9.6 mi
  A free visitor center at the western gateway of Louisiana's only All-American Road, with exhibits on alligators, migrating songbirds and the estuary.

More markers nearby

• Majestic Hotel — steps away
• Captain Daniel Johannes Goos — 0.4 mi
• 44th Air Refueling Squadron (SAC) — 0.5 mi
• Adolphus W. Greely — 0.5 mi