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Real estate developer Albert Colwell (A.C.) Steere developed the neighborhoods of South Highlands, Glen Iris, Broadmoor, Dixie Gardens, Hollywood, and parts of Highland. He died in 1930 at age 50.
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The Dunn House was once a Confederate Hospital, but it had been left to decay next to the wrecking yard, until 1995, when a group of citizens led by the Greenwood Pioneer Club and the Greenwood Women’s club saved it and turned it into the Dunn House Museum.
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Walker House on Fairfield Avenue was once the home of the Coca-Cola bottler Zehntner Biedenharn.
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Bliss-Hoyer House, built by Abel and Nettie Bliss, was later the home of Ewald Max Hoyer, the first mayor of Bossier City, who continued to reside in Shreveport.
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The C.C. Antoine House is a Queen Anne Revival style home in Allendale built by Caesar Carpenter Antoine, son of a father who fought in the battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812 and a mother from the West Indies. He was a State Senator from Caddo Parish and introduced a Senate bill to incorporate the city of Shreveport in 1871. He also served as Lieutenant Governor in the mid 1870s.
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Huey P. Long House is a two-story Spanish Colonial Revival-style house made with stucco over hollow tile. Politician Huey P. Long and his family moved into the house in 1926. He moved to Baton Rouge in 1928 when he became governor of the state, but the house remained in the family until the 1970s.
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Ogilvie-Weiner house, built in 1896, was owned by Shreveport grocer William Buckner Ogilvie, followed by Samson Weiner. The house is the largest Victorianera mansion in Louisiana, and was featured in the show “True Blood.” It is being renovated as the Austen Place Bed and Breakfast.
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Caspiana House, also known as the “Big House” from Caspiana Plantation, is an antebellum cottage built by William Joseph Hutchinson in 1856. It was donated by the Hutchinson family in 1977, moved to the LSUS campus, and restored to its original specifications.
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The Davidson House is a large, Queen Anne revival cottage located in Shreveport’s oldest residential area of Highland. Built in 1899, it was home to local historian Max Bradbury.
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The Dodd College President’s Home was built in 1929 and named for the college’s founder Dr. M.E. Dodd, who operated the school from 1926 to 1943. The house, located at the intersection of Ockley Drive and College Lane, is called “Medjoy.”
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The Colonel Robert H. Lindsay House was built in 1872 by Col. Lindsay for his bride, Mary, in what is
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