The Arlington Hotel in downtown Shreveport opened in 1914.

Today, the Louisiana Tower stands in the Tilly aka Phoenix aka Youree aka Washington-Youree aka Captain Shreve Hotel's Shreveport site.

The Scott-Barker House and St. Paul Baptist Church contribute to worries about preserving the past of fast-growing Melissa in Collin County.

Coates' Bluff was Shreveport's original settlement, the site of a trading post within a Caddoan village.

Along Cherry Street in downtown Sherman is an interesting ruin behind the 1888 Cottonbelt railroad depot.

A PERFECT example of Mid-Century Modern still exists in downtown Sherman.

Southern Maid Donuts, particularly the ones made in Shreveport, Louisiana, are served fresh and hot in the afternoon.

Photographs of downtown Denison (Grayson County, Texas) are always so giving: fun to post, fun to research, and fun to look at!

An undated photograph depicts "a busy Saturday in Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma."

Sanborn Maps from the 1880s tell me that the burning building was the Crockett Hotel in Bonham, Texas.

The photos of hotels in Clarksville from 1885 are from an archive that is no longer available.

Near Marksville, Louisiana sit 2,500 year old, human constructed mounds... ancient, earthen pyramids. They've been abandoned once again.

Mudgett aka Holmes aka Lyman aka Pratt, the builder of the Murder Castle in Fort Worth, was executed by hanging in 1896.

Calera (Bryan County, Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma) began life as Cale Switch in 1872.

Top o' Hill Terrace was one the biggest gambling halls, bordellos, and speakeasies in the Southwest.

The most notorious brothel in Denison was Brown Front, named so because it, well, had an unpainted wooden front that was none too pretty.

The courthouse once left an imposing impression on those plying their trades in old Hell's Half Acre, Fort Worth's red light district.

Dallas boasted several vice districts: Boggy Bayou, Deep Ellum, the Reservation, West Dallas, and Commerce Street.

Most of the buildings that lie inside Fair Park in Dallas today are landmarks built purposefully for the 1936 Centennial Exposition.

Architecture was coded and uniform to be efficient in their builds, even the places that we now view as one-of-a-kind quaintness.