Simon Herold House, 1050 Ontario Street, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA

2017 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention
Significance: The Simon Herold house, designed by William B. Wiener, Sr. for attorney Simon Herold and his family, is a wonderful artifact of mid-century modernism and has remained mostly unaltered since its construction in 1954. William B. Wiener, Sr. (1907-81) and his older half-brother Samuel G. Wiener (1896-1977) produced some of the earliest (beginning in 1931) modern buildings designed by American-born architects in the South and indeed the entire United States. After World War II, the brothers' practices evolved and were influenced to a greater extent by American trends as opposed to European modernism as was the case before the war. The house is located in the South Highlands Historic District which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 1999.
Survey number: HABS LA-209
Building/structure dates: 1954 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1962 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 99000496