Basin St. Station

Specialties

Basin St. Station, the Cultural Crossroads of New Orleans, exhibits the fascinating history, rich culture and unique attributes of New Orleans in the only remaining railroad building of the City. It’s mission is to offer visitors and residents a broad range of authentic and diverse information about the history and culture of New Orleans in an inviting, elegant, vibrant, and historic location. Basin St. Station is nestled in the very center of New Orleans’ most historically important neighborhoods. Basin St. Station is offered to visitors for travel planning, to school groups for educational programs, as a performance or event venue and as a meeting place for non-​profit, educational, neighborhood and community groups to share the uniqueness of the culture, traditions and customs of a great American city.

History

Established in 2006.

Basin St. Station, formerly the New Orleans Terminal Company/​Southern Railway Freight Office Building, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 and the name Basin Street, are among the historical touchstones that remain in what was once the transportation crossroad of the City of New Orleans. Today, Basin St. Station embodies the preservation of a rare vestige of the five railway stations and their associated buildings that served downtown New Orleans in the early 20^th Century.