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Baton Rouge City Club

Buildings and structures completed in 1895East Baton Rouge Parish, LouisianaIndividually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National RegisterIndividually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in LouisianaLouisiana Registered Historic Place stubs
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Former post office in downtown Baton Rouge
Former post office in downtown Baton Rouge

The Baton Rouge City Club, also known as the Old Post Office, is a historic three-story building at 355 North Blvd in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was built in 1895 as a U.S. post office building. Its NRHP nomination asserts:The Old Post Office is one of the finest and most pretentious examples of turn-of-the-[20th]-century Renaissance Revival architecture in the state. Few other comparable buildings in Louisiana can boast such a high degree of stylistic sophistication and close adherence to Italian prototypes and such extensive use of terra cotta ornamentation, In its day, its design stood at the forefront of architectural development in the state. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1980. It was also included in the Downtown Baton Rouge Historic District at the time of its creation on November 10, 2009.

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Baton Rouge City Club
Lafayette Street, Baton Rouge Downtown Development District (Downtown Development District)

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Downtown Baton Rouge

Lafayette Street
70801 Baton Rouge, Downtown Development District (Downtown Development District)
Louisiana, United States
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Shaw Center for the Arts
Shaw Center for the Arts

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. The Center includes the LSU Museum of Art, the LSU School of Art Glassell Gallery, the 325-seat Manship Theatre, classrooms, Tsunami, a rooftop sushi restaurant, and a park. Among other collections, the museum includes the largest assemblage of Newcomb Pottery in the United States. The skin of the Shaw Center for the Arts is made of translucent channel glass manufactured in Germany by Glasfabrik Lamberts. The Shaw Center received the American Institute of Architects Gulf States Honor Award in 2005 for its "aggressive concept with a good contrast of materials" and "effective mapping of façade upon the plaza" [1]. The center was built with both public and private funding. The Shaw Group was a major donor to Shaw Center for the Arts, and received the naming rights to the building, however the Shaw Center is neither owned by The Shaw Group nor do they share employees. Other major donors were the Manship families, the Pennington families and Lamar Advertising, which is based in Baton Rouge (Lamar and Reilly families). The Shaw Center has won several awards for design excellence including: 2008 American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Honor Award 2005 AIA Gulf States Region Honor Award 2005 AIA New England Region Honor Award 2005 Boston Society of Architects Award for Design 2005 Boston Society of Architects Higher Education Award CitationThe architects are Design Architect: Schwartz/Silver Architects, Boston, MA Executive Architect: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, New Orleans, LA Associated Architect: Jerry M. Campbell & Associates, Baton Rouge, LA