Central Station

The Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad built the station in 1910, and its time as a passenger terminal was short. By the early 1940s passenger operations had moved to Shreveport Union Station, so the building served rail travelers for about three decades. The National Register listed it on May 28, 1991, together with a small freight depot next to it. A railroad town's passenger traffic could change hands between stations without the buildings ever coming down, and this one did.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring Street Museum — 0.4 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 0.4 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 0.9 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 3.0 mi
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.

More markers nearby

• Jefferson Hotel — steps away
• Scottish Rite Cathedral — 0.3 mi
• Strand Theatre — 0.3 mi
• Old B'nai Zion Temple — 0.3 mi