Chicago and Alton Railroad Depot at Higginsville, also known as the C & A Depot, is a historic

train station A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing suc ...

located at Higginsville,

Lafayette County, Missouri Lafayette County is a county in the western portion of Missouri, part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,381. Its county seat is Lexington. The county was organized November 16, 1820 from Cooper ...

. It was built in 1888-1889 by the

Chicago and Alton Railroad The Alton Railroad was the final name of a railroad linking Chicago to Alton, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; and Kansas City, Missouri. Its predecessor, the Chicago and Alton Railroad , was purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1931 an ...

, and is a 1 1/2-story, Stick style frame building. It features projecting eaves supported by large brackets and exterior walls faced with vertical boards,

batten A batten is most commonly a strip of solid material, historically wood but can also be of plastic, metal, or fiberglass. Battens are variously used in construction, sailing, and other fields. In the lighting industry, battens refer to linea ...

s and horizontal clapboards. (includes 19 photographs from 1984) It 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 1987.

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Higginsville Former railway stations in Missouri Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Stick-Eastlake architecture in the United States Railway stations in the United States opened in 1889 National Register of Historic Places in Lafayette County, Missouri {{LafayetteCountyMO-NRHP-stub