Union Station (Pine Bluff, Arkansas)


Union Station is a former railroad station at East 4th Ave. and State St. in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas. The station was originally at the union of the Cotton Belt and [St. Louis, St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway|Iron Mountain and Southern Railway|Iron Mountain] railroads, and now houses the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Historical Society museum. It is a single-story brick building, with a hip roof whose long eaves are supported by iron columns and half-truss brackets. The station was built in 1906 by the Iron Mountain Railroad. It had been a stop on the St. Louis Southwestern's Lone Star, and also on the railway's St. Louis-Dallas trains. Ownership reverted to the city in 1955.
The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.