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Photo, Print, Drawing Louisiana State University, Bus Stop Shelter, Highland Road at Evangeline Circle, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA First Bus Stop Shelter Highland Road Bus Stop Shelter No. 2

[ Drawings from Survey HABS LA-1207-B  ]

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[ Data Pages from Survey HABS LA-1207-B  ]

About this Item

Title

  • Louisiana State University, Bus Stop Shelter, Highland Road at Evangeline Circle, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

Other Title

  • First Bus Stop Shelter Highland Road Bus Stop Shelter No. 2

Names

  • Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
  • Louisiana State University, Highland Road Campus
  • Weiss, Dreyfous, and Seiferth
  • Long, Huey P.
  • Weiss , Leon C.
  • Louisiana Hayride Scandals
  • Leche, Richard
  • Smith, James M.
  • Link, Theodore C.
  • Earley, John J.
  • Gartness Plantation
  • Olmsted Brothers
  • St. Joe Brick Works, Inc.
  • Link, Clarence
  • Wogan and Bernard Architects
  • Neild, Somdal, and Neild Architects
  • E. A. McIlheney Company
  • Steele Burden Landscape Architects
  • Arzola, Robert R., program coordinator
  • Carwile, Guy W., delineator
  • McPartland, Mary, transmitter
  • Stranieri, Marcella, transmitter
  • Louisiana Tech University, School of Design, sponsor

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

  • -  transportation
  • -  transportation buildings
  • -  campus
  • -  Italianate architectural elements
  • -  precast concrete
  • -  roof trusses
  • -  pantiles
  • -  education
  • -  hip roofs
  • -  overhangs
  • -  Tuscan order
  • -  benches
  • -  bus stops
  • -  shelters
  • -  students
  • -  Louisiana--East Baton Rouge Parish--Baton Rouge

Latitude / Longitude

  • 30.41238888,-91.17608333

Notes

  • -  2020 Leicester B. Holland Prize, First Place
  • -  Significance: The bus stop shelter was the first of only three such elegant Italian Renaissance structures built from a prototypical design by the New Orleans architectural firm of Weiss, Dreyfous, and Seiferth for the campus of Louisiana State University (LSU). The design was completed on October 28, 1936 and the first shelter was erected in early 1937 here on Highland Road at Evangeline Circle. The bus stop shelters are emblematic of the second phase of major construction on the LSU campus during the 1930s. A number of small structures such as the campus entrance gates, the mascot enclosure, small houses and the bus stop shelters serve as small pieces of garden ornament juxtaposed to the field of larger campus buildings.
  • -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2504
  • -  Survey number: HABS LA-1207-B
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction
  • -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 88001586

Medium

  • Measured Drawing(s): 1
  • Data Page(s): 6

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HABS LA-1207-B

Source Collection

  • Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • la0775

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Chicago citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Highland Road Campus Louisiana State University, Dreyfous Weiss, Huey P Long, Leon C Weiss, Louisiana Hayride Scandals, Richard Leche, et al. Louisiana State University, Bus Stop Shelter, Highland Road at Evangeline Circle, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA. Baton Rouge Louisiana East Baton Rouge Parish, 1933. translateds by Mcpartland, Marymitter, and Stranieri, Marcellamitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/la0775/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, C., Louisiana State University, H. R. C., Weiss, D., Long, H. P., Weiss, L. C., Louisiana Hayride Scandals [...] Louisiana Tech University, S. O. D. (1933) Louisiana State University, Bus Stop Shelter, Highland Road at Evangeline Circle, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA. Baton Rouge Louisiana East Baton Rouge Parish, 1933. McPartland, M. & Stranieri, M., transs Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/la0775/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, et al. Louisiana State University, Bus Stop Shelter, Highland Road at Evangeline Circle, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA. trans by Mcpartland, Marymitter, and Stranieri, Marcellamitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/la0775/>.