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LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD DEPOT

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1928. 1928 Depot Way

This former depot’s large size and elaborate styling reflect Bay St. Louis’s elevated status in the tourism economy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Replacing a wooden depot lost to fire, the Spanish Colonial Revival two-story brick building has shaped parapets, a smooth-stucco finish, an ornate terra-cotta frontispiece, and polylobe-arched windows. Its designer is unknown, but the depot forms the third of a local Spanish Colonial Revival triad along with William T. Nolan’s contemporary high school (1926; 202 N. 2nd Street) and the A&G Theater (see GC2). Abandoned by the railroad in 1993, the building was renovated as a visitors’ center.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

100 MEN D.B.A. HALL
ST. ROSE DE LIMA CATHOLIC CHURCH
LOUIS J. PIERNAS HOUSE
OUR LADY OF THE GULF CATHOLIC CHURCH
WEBB SCHOOL HOUSE

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD DEPOT", [Bay St. Louis, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-GC6.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 337-337.

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