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This former depot’s large size and elaborate styling reflect Bay St. Louis’s elevated status in the tourism economy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Replacing a wooden depot lost to fire, the Spanish Colonial Revival two-story brick building has shaped parapets, a smooth-stucco finish, an ornate terra-cotta frontispiece, and polylobe-arched windows. Its designer is unknown, but the depot forms the third of a local Spanish Colonial Revival triad along with William T. Nolan’s contemporary high school (1926; 202 N. 2nd Street) and the A&G Theater (see GC2). Abandoned by the railroad in 1993, the building was renovated as a visitors’ center.