Shreveport, LA Historic Preservation: Historic-Cultural Monuments (2026)

Shreveport's Code of Ordinances devotes Chapter 37, the "Local Register of City Districts, Landmarks and Historic Properties," to cataloging every officially designated cultural district, historic district, landmark and individually designated historic property inside the city limits (§ 37-2). 75003. Getting a property onto, or off, that register is a four-step legislative process under § 37-4. First, the property must already carry an official state or national designation, or be authorized by a separate city council ordinance or resolution. Second, the Shreveport Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) reviews the designation and makes a recommendation to the council.

Third, a favorable HPC recommendation is drafted as a proposed ordinance amending Chapter 37 and transmitted to the city attorney's office for legal review. Fourth, the city council itself must adopt the amending ordinance under the City Charter's normal procedures; there is no administrative shortcut. The HPC, created and staffed under § 36-13, also maintains the register (§ 37-3) and reviews certificate-of-appropriateness and certificate-of-demolition applications for designated properties, though those permits are administered through the Shreveport-Caddo Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) under the Unified Development Code, not Chapter 37 itself.

Because the monument's protection lives in the ordinance book rather than an administrative database, removing its NRHP-linked entry from § 37-208, or adding another cultural monument to the register, requires the same public council vote and HPC vetting used to create a historic district.