Decatur station (Arkansas)
Appearance
Kansas City-Southern Depot-Decatur | |
Location in Arkansas | |
Location | AR 59, Decatur, Arkansas |
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Coordinates | 36°20′7″N 94°27′39″W / 36.33528°N 94.46083°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1920 |
Architect | Kansas City-Southern Railroad |
Architectural style | Bungalow/craftsman, Plain Traditional |
MPS | Historic Railroad Depots of Arkansas MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 92000606[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 11, 1992 |
The Kansas City-Southern Depot is a historic railroad station at Arkansas Highway 59 and West North Street in Decatur, Arkansas. It is a long rectangular single-story structure, built out of concrete blocks. It has a hip roof with Craftsman-style brackets and two fisheye dormers, and a cross-gable projecting telegrapher's bay decorated with fish-scale wood shingles. It was built c. 1920 by the Kansas City Southern Railway.[2]
The depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]
See also
[edit]- Kansas City Southern Railway Locomotive No. 73D and Caboose No. 385
- Kansas City Southern Depot (Mena, Arkansas)
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Benton County, Arkansas
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Kansas City-Southern Depot". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
Preceding station | Kansas City Southern Railway | Following station | ||
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Gravette toward Kansas City
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Main Line | Gentry toward Port Arthur
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Categories:
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1920
- National Register of Historic Places in Benton County, Arkansas
- Decatur, Arkansas
- Former Kansas City Southern Railway stations
- Former railway stations in Arkansas
- Transportation in Benton County, Arkansas
- American Craftsman architecture in Arkansas
- Bungalow architecture in Arkansas
- 1920 establishments in Arkansas
- Benton County, Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs