The Missouri and North Arkansas Depot is a historic railroad station at Center Street and Cash Streets in

Bellefonte, Arkansas Bellefonte is a town in Boone County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 530 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area. Bellefonte gained national attention in 2013 when the city's mayor, James Wiggs, ...

. It is a small single-story structure with a wide low-pitch gable-on-hip roof and a rubble-stone exterior over a wood frame. A small shed-roof addition enlarges the building slightly to the north, while a larger cross-gable addition projects from the rear. It was built in 1901 by the

Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad The Missouri and North Arkansas was a railroad in Missouri and Arkansas from 1906 to 1946. History The railroad began as the Eureka Springs Railway in 1883 as a line from the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway in Seligman, MO, reaching the res ...

to serve the area's passenger traffic. It is a rare example of rubble-over-frame construction for railroad stations in the region. The building was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1992.

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Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Railway stations in the United States opened in 1901 Transportation in Boone County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Boone County, Arkansas 1901 establishments in Arkansas Former railway stations in Arkansas {{BooneCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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