About this property
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. 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. 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. The Depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 1983. 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. National Register of Historic Places listings in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Location
Categories
Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).
Description adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Everything a full report reveals about Kansas City Southern Depot
This page lists Kansas City Southern Depot. A full Aubrey report for an address near it pulls together this listing alongside battlefield records, land patents, and every other historical record within a chosen radius:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Questions about this property
When was Kansas City Southern Depot listed on the National Register?
Kansas City Southern Depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 21, 1983.
What type of historic resource is Kansas City Southern Depot?
Kansas City Southern Depot is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
What is the period of significance for Kansas City Southern Depot?
The period of significance for Kansas City Southern Depot is recorded as the industrial era.
Can I research the history near Kansas City Southern Depot?
Yes. Aubrey Research reports search National Register listings, battlefield records, land patents, and other primary historical sources within any radius of a US address. A report for an address near Kansas City Southern Depot will include this listing and all other historical records in the area.
More in Calcasieu County
Historic places, battles, and census history across Calcasieu County.
Explore CalcasieuCounty ›More historic places in Louisiana
Browse all historic places in Louisiana.
View Louisianahistoric sites ›Louisiana history
Colonial settlement, territorial period, and statehood narrative.
Louisianahistory ›Research the history near this site
An Aubrey US report for an address near Kansas City Southern Depot will include this listing alongside battlefield records and other historical sources within your chosen radius.