[4] Monroe E. Dodd, the First Baptist Church pastor and Edward Jacobs, the National Bank of Shreveport founder, both strongly advocated for the project.

[6] In 2017, barrels of food from 1963 were found in an unused wing of the building, left over from Cold War Civil Defense preparations.

[10] The Villa Medici in Rome, completed in 1544, inspired architect Clarence W. King to design the building in a Italian Renaissance Revival style.

The main entrance consists of a triple arch opening flanked by pilasters and topped with a segmental pediment.

[3] Inside, a central lobby consists of octagonal piers leading up to a plaster mock groin vaulted ceiling.