Baton Rouge Heritage Buildings Photos

Baton Rouge, Louisiana has a few heritage buildings of note.

See also: Baton Rouge
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Louisiana State Capitol (1930-32) (34 floors) tallest State Capitol in USA.
Style: Art Deco. Architect: Weiss, Dreyfous & Seiferth. On National Register. Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge

Old State Capitol (1847-50) (100 North St.) burned (1862) to brick shell in Civil War & restored (1882).
Style: Gothic Revival. Architect: James Dakin; restored William A. Freret. On National Register. Old Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge

Louisiana State Capitol grounds with Old Arsenal Powder Magazine & Museum. Louisiana State Capitol Park, Baton Rouge

Pentagon Barracks (1819-22) for U.S. troops & used by Louisiana State University (1886-1925). One building destroyed by flood. On National Register. Louisiana State Capitol Park, Baton Rouge

East Baton Rouge Parish Court House (222 St. Louis St.).

Old Governor's Mansion (1930) (502 North St.). Architect: Dreyfus, Weiss & Seifert. On National Register.

Side view of Old Governor's Mansion.

Old Post Office (1894) (355 North Blvd.) & former City Hall, now City Club of Baton Rouge. Style: Renaissance Revival. On National Register.

Upper story detail of Old Post Office & former City Hall.

Window detail of Old Post Office & former City Hall.

Louisiana State Office Building, Lyceum Dean (124 North Third St.) & North Third Streetscape.

Louisiana State Office Building (1927) (12 floors) (150 North Third St.).

Heritage buildings around Roumain Building on North Third Street.

Roumain Building (1923) (6 floors) (343 North Third St.).
Architect: Favrot & Livaudais. On National Register.

Cast iron overhang of Roumain Building.

Terra cotta facade details of Roumain Building.

State National Life building (7 floors) (263 Third St.).

Hilton Capitol Center (former Heidelberg Hotel) (1927) (11 floors) (201 Lafayette St.).
Architect: Edward F. Neild. On National Register.

Entrance facade of former Heidelberg Hotel, now Hilton Capitol Center.

Baton Rouge Waterworks Company Standpipe (1937) (131 Lafayette St.).
Architect: John H. Wood. On National Register.

One of Baton Rouge's last remaining buildings with cast iron balconies (121 Convention St.).

Cast iron balcony at 121 Convention St.

Louisiana Art & Science Museum in former Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. Station (1925) (100 S. River St.). On National Register.

Planetarium of Louisiana Art & Science Museum.

St. Joseph Cathedral (1853) (412 North St.).
Style: Gothic Revival. Architect: Father John Cambiaso. On National Register.

Tower of St. Joseph Cathedral (1891).
Architect: F.B. Dicharry.

St. James Episcopal Church (1895) (34m 112ft) (208 N. 4th St.).
Style: Gothic Revival. Architect: Col. W.L. Stevens. On National Register.

Gothic entrance door of St. James Episcopal Church.

Tower of St. James Episcopal Church.

Tiffany stained glass windows in apse of St. James Episcopal Church.

Tiffany stained glass window of flowers in St. James Episcopal Church.

Tiffany stained glass window of angel with lilies in St. James Episcopal Church.

Tiffany stained glass window of tree & lilies in St. James Episcopal Church.

Stained glass window of Palm Sunday in St. James Episcopal Church.

Stained glass window of Christ as shepherd in St. James Episcopal Church.

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