Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 91000345 Added to NRHP 22 March 1991 | Built 1911 (1911) Opened 1911 | |
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Location Jct. of W. Main and Oak Sts., Bunkie, Louisiana | ||
The Texas and Pacific Passenger Depot is an historic train station, located in Bunkie, Louisiana.
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History
The Texas and Pacific Railway established a station on the main line at Bunkie in 1882. A town formed around it as a shipping point for cotton and cotton-related industries such as cotton seed oil production. The current depot, built in 1911, is not the original freight depot, but is the only existing reminder of the importance of the railway to the founding of Bunkie.
The 1911 depot is a two story brick building alongside the railroad tracks in downtown Bunkie. Of no particular architectural style, the building sits on a heavily stuccoed dado and has a distinctive bay window overlooking the tracks. It is one of only three remaining larger multi-story urban train depots in Louisiana built in the early 20th century, the others are the Central Railroad Station in Shreveport, and the Kansas City Southern Depot in DeQuincy.
Later years
Though the building has gone through several changes over the years, it remains easily identifiable as a train depot. The depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It was remodeled in 2001 and as of 2013 houses a small railroad museum and the headquarters of the Bunkie Chamber of Commerce.