Art Museum

Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot

Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot

Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot is an art museum in Baton Rouge, United States.

About Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot

Baton Rouge station is a historic train station located at 100 South River Road in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was built for the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad which got absorbed by the Illinois Central Railroad. The station was a stop on the Y&MV main line between Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana. The building now houses the Louisiana Art and Science Museum.

The two-story main block and the two one-story wings in Classical Revival style stand directly across the Old State Capitol building.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 19, 1994, as the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. Depot.

Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot by the numbers

Founded
1925

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Artworks shown from Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.