Kansas City Southern Depot (Leesville, Louisiana)

	Kansas City Southern Depot
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Leesville, Louisiana
Coordinates	31°08′09″N 93°15′43″W / 31.13583°N 93.26194°W
Architectural style	Mission Revival
NRHP reference No.	84000080
Added to NRHP	October 25, 1984

The Kansas City Southern Depot, now the Museum of West Louisiana, is a former railway station in Leesville, Louisiana. It was built by the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1916.^[2] It served as a combination of passenger station, freight station, and crew change point.^[3] The station was a busy shipping point during the Vernon Parish lumber boom in the early part of the 1900s. A local KCS train served the station into the 1960s.^[4]

The building was donated to Vernon Parish on May 20, 1982.^[5] The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1984. It was converted into a museum.

References[edit]

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 15, 2006.
^ "Leesville". The Shreveport Journal. April 11, 1916. p. 6. Retrieved September 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Carter, Thad Hillis (2009). Kansas City Southern Railway. Arcadia Publishing. p. 70. ISBN 9780738560014.
^ Passenger Train Information Folder (PDF). Kansas City Southern Lines. June 1, 1963. p. 4. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
^ "Leesville Depot Work Hampered". The Town Talk. March 3, 1984. p. 5. Retrieved September 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

Preceding station	Kansas City Southern Railway			Following station
Orangeville toward Kansas City		Main Line		Pickering toward Port Arthur

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 15, 2006.

[2] "Leesville". The Shreveport Journal. April 11, 1916. p. 6. Retrieved September 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

[3] Carter, Thad Hillis (2009). Kansas City Southern Railway. Arcadia Publishing. p. 70. ISBN 9780738560014.

[4] Passenger Train Information Folder (PDF). Kansas City Southern Lines. June 1, 1963. p. 4. Retrieved August 28, 2023.

[5] "Leesville Depot Work Hampered". The Town Talk. March 3, 1984. p. 5. Retrieved September 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

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