Holy Trinity Catholic Church

The cornerstone holds documents from the Civil War that had just ended. Above it, Gothic Revival windows admit light through glass cut by hand, pane by pane. Holy Trinity went up between 1866 and 1868, during Reconstruction—a church rising in the same years the nation was remaking itself. The windows survive intact. So does the altar. The parish remains active, still gathering on Spring Street in downtown Shreveport's historic district. You can attend mass on the regular schedule the congregation keeps, in a building that has stood since the turbulent years of the post-Civil War South first began to settle.