Baton Rouge Photographs and Architecture
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Balancing the Heritage of the Past and the Needs of the Future

The delicate balance between the past and the future can be achieved. Buildings reflecting our history can coexist with our needs of the present and the future.

Re-use of buildings offers many advantages, financial and otherwise. And efforts of programs such as the National Register of Historic Places have been highly successful in creating awareness and actually preserving our heritage.

See Baton Rouge as it existed in the 1940s and 1950s, in the Baton Rouge Historic Postcard Collection.

    A few final glimpses of Baton Rouge from the late 1970s...

The Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana August, 1978
The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Station, River Road, Baton Rouge (now the Louisiana Arts and Science Museum) September, 1978
Remnants of the Baton Rouge street car system 11th Street looking south towards Convention Street Baton Rouge, Louisiana September, 1978
The Last of the Streetcar Tracks, East Boulevard, just off Government Street Baton Rouge, Louisiana September, 1978 "We can only hope that our tracks will not lead us to an architectural dead-end".

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