The Choctaw Route Station is a historic former railroad station on East 3rd Street in the riverfront area of Little Rock, Arkansas. The building now houses the Clinton School of Public Service, a branch of the University of Arkansas at the Clinton Presidential Center. The station, built in 1899 for the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, is a single-story brick building with elaborate terra cotta detailing, and is one of the architecturally finest stations in the state.[2]

Little Rock
Former Rock Island Line passenger rail station
The renovated Choctaw Station houses the Clinton School of Public Service and the Clinton Foundation office.
General information
Location	1200 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
Choctaw Route Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location in Arkansas Show map of Arkansas Location in United States Show map of the United States
Location	E. 3rd at Rock Island RR., Little Rock, Arkansas
Coordinates	34°44′44″N 92°15′32″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1899 (1899)
Built by	Choctaw, Oklahoma, and Gulf Railroad
NRHP reference No.	75000404[1]
Added to NRHP	May 6, 1975

Major named passenger trains included:[3][4]

• Californian
• Cherokee
• Choctaw Rocket
• Memphis-Californian
• Southwest Express

By the mid-1960s the trains had dwindled down the Memphis-Californian successor, the Memphis-Tucumcari, an overnight coach-only Memphis-Little Rock-Oklahoma City-Amarillo-Tucumcari train. This final train at the station was terminated between fall 1967 and summer 1968.[5][6]

The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Little Rock, Arkansas

References

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