This two-story brick Italian Renaissance-styled station replaced a Queen Anne depot and provided a formal entrance for the city’s travelers to complement the Edwards Hotel (JM28). The multilevel station received passengers from the elevated railroad tracks, a 1925 improvement that allowed automobile traffic from downtown to pass underneath to the booming suburbs of West Jackson.
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "UNION STATION", [Jackson, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-JM27.
Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 247-247.
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