Location Information
(for the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Station Union Depot)
Name:Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Station (Union Depot) [Gulfport Centennial Museum]
Address:1419 27th Avenue
City/County:Gulfport, Harrison County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1904
No. of Stories:1
Registration Information
NR District Name:Harbor Square (1985)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:63
NR District Name:Gulfport Harbor Square Commercial (2011)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:78a
Mississippi Landmark Information
Designated:01-15-1986
Recorded:02-12-1986
Book/Vol. No.:V. 165, p. 401
Easement Information
Date Signed:09-14-2012
Easement Type:Preservation/Maintenance
Book/Vol. No.:Book 2012 Pg. 5396D-J1
Context/Comments
This former railroad depot was built in 1904 at the crossing of the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.

It was listed as element #63 in the (old) Harbor Square Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 13 August 1985. Because that historic district was severely ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the old district was superseded by the (new) Gulfport Harbor Square Commercial Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 25 October 2011. The building is now listed as element #78-a in the Gulfport Harbor Square Commercial Historic District. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark on 15 January 1986.

It is mentioned in "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p. 342, within the listing for the Mississippi Power Company/Gulf and Ship Island Railroad building, GC15).
Brief Description
One-story, L-shaped brick former railroad depot on a concrete foundation with a hip roof of composition shingles with a six-foot overhang supported by knee braces with the bottom portion of the brace resting on a projecting cast stone corbel. Central section of the roof is flat behind a parapet with cast stone and tile caps. In the parapet is a galvanized projecting metal cornice. The facade is seventeen bays (D, W, W, Freight Door, Freight Door, D, D, W, W, W, D, W, W, W, D, W, Freight Door). The majority of the doors and windows are boarded over. There are a few of the wood windows with only the lights covered and it appears that the windows are 1/1 wood double hung sash. The freight doors are wood and have a chevron pattern to them. The entry door and transom are covered over. The windows and doors on the central section have terracotta lintels and cast stone sills. There are two wood doors visible, both are wood and one has twelve lights over two recessed vertical panels and a four light, vertically divided, transom above. The other door has four lights over three recessed panels and the transom is covered.