Kansas City Southern Depot

Leesville, United States

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Built in 1916 by the Kansas City Southern Railway, this Mission Revival depot in Leesville, Louisiana, originally functioned as a combined passenger station, freight facility, and crew change point. It served as a vital shipping hub during the region's early twentieth-century lumber boom, with local KCS trains operating there into the 1960s. After the railway donated the building to Vernon Parish in 1982, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and subsequently converted into the Museum of West Louisiana, preserving its architectural heritage and local industrial history.