Louisville and Nashville Passenger Station
National Register of Historic Places

Louisville and Nashville Passenger Station

Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
Listed
March 25, 1982
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
82003982

About this property

The L&N Station is a former rail passenger station in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located in the downtown area at the northern end of the World's Fair Park. Built in 1905 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and designed by its chief engineer, Richard Montfort, the station was renovated for use in the 1982 World's Fair, and is currently home to Knox County's STEM-based magnet high school, the L&N STEM Academy. In 1982, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architecture and role in Knoxville's transportation history. The L&N completed a rail line running from Cincinnati to Atlanta in the early 1900s, and built a string of passenger stations and depots to service trains along this line. The company's Knoxville station was the city's largest, and considered by some the "finest" along the L&N's entire Cincinnati–Atlanta line. It served as a passenger station until the L&N ceased passenger train service to Knoxville in 1968, and continued to house L&N offices until 1975. The L&N Station is mentioned in several scenes in author James Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Death in the Family. The L&N Station is now home to the L&N STEM Academy, a magnet high school which focuses on science, technology, engineering, and math.

Location

700 Western Ave., NW
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
35.96435, -83.92442

Categories

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Sources

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.

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Nearby Battles

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When was Louisville and Nashville Passenger Station listed on the National Register?

Louisville and Nashville Passenger Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 25, 1982.

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Louisville and Nashville Passenger Station is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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