Broadmoor Historic District

Between the 1890s and 1920s, Shreveport's affluent families built south of downtown along the Line Avenue corridor, and the density of that wealth is still legible. Broadmoor holds more than fifty historic residences—Victorian, Queen Anne, Classical Revival—built when permanence was the point. Turreted corners, wraparound porches, columns framing doorways twice the width you expect. The National Register designation confirms what the grid shows: this was architecture meant to last, and it did. Walking tour maps guide you block by block through what remains. You see who built it, and when, without a placard needing to explain. The houses do that work themselves.