The Joplin Union Depot is a historic railroad station located at Joplin , Jasper County, Missouri . The station was served by a number of railroads, two of which were the Kansas City Southern Railway and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad . The station was completed in July 1911. On November 4, 1969, the last train, the Southern Belle visited the station, ending 58 years of constant service. After train service ended, the station slowly deteriorated. Designed by the Canadian-born architect Louis Curtiss , the station was featured in the January 1912 edition of Popular Mechanics for its use of mining waste in the concrete.
4-489: On March 14, 1973, the station was entered into the National Register of Historic Places . It is currently unoccupied. There are currently plans to restore the depot. There have been many ideas for its use, but none have been made certain. This would tie in with the revitalization of downtown. On October 20, 2021, the station was listed as a Place In Peril by Missouri Preservation, a statewide organization advocating for
8-526: Is a list of properties and historic districts in Missouri on the National Register of Historic Places . There are NRHP listings in all of Missouri's 114 counties and the one independent city of St. Louis . This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 22, 2024. The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in
12-587: The National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are approximate and not official. New entries are added to the official Register on a weekly basis. Also, the counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which modify
16-634: The preservation of architectural and historic landmarks. Joplin Union Depot supporters announced on May 4, 2022, plans for a national marketing effort to find an interested party to restore and use the 110-year-old station. This article about a property in Jasper County, Missouri on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . National Register of Historic Places listings in Missouri, Counties J%E2%80%93K Download coordinates as: This
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