The Kansas City Southern Depot is an historic train station, located at 400 Lake Charles Avenue, in DeQuincy, Louisiana. The depot is currently home to the DeQuincy Railroad Museum.[2]
Kansas City Southern Depot | |
 | |
   | |
| Location | 400 Lake Charles Avenue, DeQuincy, Louisiana |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 30°27′06″N 93°26′07″W / 30.45177°N 93.43521°W |
| Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
| Built by | Kansas City Southern Railroad |
| Architectural style | Mission Revival architecture |
| NRHP reference No. | 83000494[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 20, 1995 |
History edit
The Kansas City Southern Railroad completed a line from Shreveport to Lake Charles in 1897, that ran through and split in Dequincy, also going to Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas. The community of DeQuincy was incorporated in 1903, and a new modern urban depot was built in 1923, of Mission Revival architecture. Urban depots of that time were larger, typically multi-story, and built with a recognizable architectural style, as opposed to the simpler board and batten structures found in villages. The DeQuincy depot is one of three such urban railroad stations still existing in Louisiana, the others are the Central Railroad Station in Shreveport, and the Texas and Pacific Railroad Depot in Bunkie. All three are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[3][4]
DeQuincy hosts the annual Louisiana Railroad Days Festival, held on the museum grounds, on the second weekend in April, that includes the annual pageant, and Lorrie Morgan headlined the 2014 festival.[5][6]
The Depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 1983.[1]
Currently edit
The train station was established as an historical museum in 1974 with railroad-related artifacts from the Kansas City Southern Railroad, Missouri Pacific, and the Union Pacific Railroads. As of August 20, 2013, Union Pacific presented DeQuincy Mayor Debra Smith a resolution awarding the town membership in the Train Town USA registry, celebrating 150 years, that thus far is only shared with Natchitoches, and Bunkie, in the state of Louisiana. The membership is reserved for towns and cities along the railroad with shared heritage.[7]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "DeQuincy Railroad Museum". Retrieved November 21, 2014.
- ^ National Register Staff (June 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Form: Kansas City Southern Depot". National Park Service. Retrieved April 20, 2018. With nine photos from 1983.
- ^ "Kansas City Southern Depot" (PDF). State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation. Retrieved April 20, 2018. (with three photos and two maps)
- ^ "Louisiana Railroad Festival". Retrieved November 21, 2014.
- ^ "Pageant". Retrieved November 22, 2014.
- ^ Train Town USA- Retrieved 2014-11-21
| Preceding station | Kansas City Southern Railway | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wasey toward Kansas City
|
Main Line | Lucas toward Port Arthur
| ||
| Terminus | DeQuincy – Lake Charles | Turner toward Lake Charles
| ||
 | This article about a property in Louisiana on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This Louisiana train station-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |