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Shaw Center for the Arts. / 30.4478; -91.189. The Shaw Center for the Arts is a 125,000 square foot (12,000 m²) performing art venue, fine arts museum, and education center located at 100 Lafayette Street in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It opened in 2005.
Downtown Baton Rouge is the downtown area of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It contains the city's central business district and the Louisiana State Capitol. [1] The city encompasses virtually all the major office buildings and stretches along the coast of the Mississippi River. [2] Nearby is Louisiana State University and Tiger Stadium.
November 10, 2009. Downtown Baton Rouge Historic District is a historic district in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, located along 3rd Street, from Main Street to North Boulevard. The district comprises a total of 43 commercial buildings ranging in dates from c.1860 to mid-1950s. Third street was downtown Baton Rouge main ...
85002785 [1] Added to NRHP. November 7, 1985. Main Street Historic District is a historic district in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, located along Main Street, from North 4th Street to North 7th Street. The 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) area comprises a total of 11 historic commercial buildings, dating from c.1890 to c.1935.
History of Louisiana. Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to about 8000 BC based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers. [ 1] Earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the 4th millennium BC. [ 2]
Website. www .brla .gov. Baton Rouge ( / ˌbætən ˈruːʒ / ⓘ BAT-ən ROOZH; French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge, pronounced [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ]; Louisiana Creole: Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it had a population of 227,470 as of 2020; [4] it is the seat of ...
South side of the capitol. The Old Louisiana State Capitol, also known as the State House, is a historic government building, and now a museum, at 100 North Boulevard in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. It housed the Louisiana State Legislature from the mid-19th century until the current capitol tower building was constructed from 1929-32.
The Capitol Park Museum is a branch of the Louisiana State Museum located at 660 N. 4th Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana . There are two permanent exhibits on the history and culture of Louisiana. The building was designed by New Orleans-based design studio Eskew Dumez Ripple and exhibits were created by Christopher Chadbourne & Associates.