The station was a stop on the Y&MV main line between Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana.

[2] The two-story main block and the two one-story wings in Classical Revival style stand directly across the Old State Capitol building.

[3][4][5] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 19, 1994, as the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Co.

[1] IC-333, a 0-6-0 steam engine formerly owned by the Charles Black Sand & Gravel Company of Fluker, LA, is on display just outside the building.

[6] In the station's final years of use, it was not used by the Illinois Central but instead by the Missouri Pacific, the unnamed successor to the Houstonian night train on the Houston - New Orleans route.