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Baton Rouge Zoo

The Baton Rouge Zoo is located 15 minutes north of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The zoo is owned and operated by the Recreation and Park Commission of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisianaand is home to over 1,800 animals from around the world. The Baton Rouge Zoo has been accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums since 1977—the first zoo in Louisiana to be accredited. The zoo is open daily except on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Years Day.

Tiger Stadium

Tiger Stadium, popularly known as Death Valley, is an outdoor stadium located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is best known as the home stadium of the Louisiana State University Tigers football team. Prior to 1924, LSU played its home games at State Field which was located on the old LSU Campus in Downtown Baton Rouge. Tiger Stadium opened with a capacity of 12,000 in 1924. Renovations and expansions have brought the stadiums current capacity to 102,321, making it the third largest stadium in the SEC, sixth largest stadium in the NCAA and the ninth largest stadium in the world. When filled to capacity, Tiger Stadium ranks as the fifth largest "city" by population in the state of Louisiana.

Mall of Louisiana

Mall of Louisiana is a mid-scale shopping mall in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and is located between I-10 and Bluebonnet Blvd. Built in 1997 by developer Jim Wilson Associates which also built the Riverchase Galleria in Alabama, it is the largest mall in Louisiana and is currently owned and managed by General Growth Properties. It contains the second largest indoor carousel in the world. The architects are Crawford McWilliams Hatcher Architects, Inc. . It is currently one of Baton Rouges two regional malls, with the other shopping destination being the older Cortana Mall. Rave Motion Pictures opened a fifteen screen movie theater adjacent to the mall in 2006. Construction has recently been completed on an open-air shopping addition, which will be conjoined to the main east entrance of the mall as well as a 10 tenant power center adjacent to the movie theater. Both were completed August 2008.

Old Louisiana State Capitol

The Louisianas Old State Capitol is a building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A. which housed the Louisiana State Legislature from the mid-19th century until the current capitol tower building was constructed in 1929-32. It was built to both look like and function like a castle and has led some locals to call it the Louisiana Castle, the Castle of Baton Rouge, the Castle on the River, or the Museum of Political History; although most people just call it the old capitol building. The term "Old State Capitol" in Louisiana is used to refer to the building and not to the two towns that were formerly the capital city: New Orleans and Donaldsonville.

Louisiana State Capitol

The Louisiana State Capitol is the seat of government for the U.S. state of Louisiana and is located in downtown Baton Rouge. The capitol houses the chambers for the Louisiana State Legislature, made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as the office of the Governor of Louisiana. At 450 feet tall and with 34 stories, it is the tallest building in Baton Rouge, the seventh tallest building in Louisiana, and tallest capitol in the United States. It is located on a 27-acre tract, which includes the capitol gardens. The Louisiana State Capitol is often thought of as "Huey Longs monument" due to the influence of the former Governor and U.S. Senator in getting the capitol built. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982.

Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center

Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center is a 103-acre nature conservation park administered by the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge , and located at 10503 N. Oak Hills Parkway, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70810. It is open to the public Tuesday - Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. (except for some holidays) for a nominal fee. The facility was opened as BREC's first nature conservation based park on 17 May 1997.

USS Kidd

USS Kidd, a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Admiral Kidd was the first US flag officer to die during World War II, and the first American admiral ever to be killed in action.

Louisiana Art and Science Museum

The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot is located at 100 South River Road. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was also known as the Illinois Central Railroad Station. The building currently houses the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. The architectural style of the building is considered Classical Revival. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 (Building #94000463) 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. Several passenger cars previously on display have been removed. As of 2011, IC-333 and its tender have been removed from the site as well.

Blue Bayou and Dixie Landin'

Blue Bayou Waterpark and Dixie Landin’ are adjacent amusement parks in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Blue Bayou is a water park and Dixie Landin is a more traditional amusement park with thrill rides.

Odell S. Williams Now And Then African-American Museum

The Odell S. Williams Now And Then African-American History Museum or the Baton Rouge African-American Museum, is a non-profit museum of African-American history and heritage located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. The museum is named for Odell S. Williams, an educator in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Founded by Sadie Roberts-Joseph in 2001, the museum remains the only museum dedicated to African and African American history, in the capital city of Louisiana. The museum celebrates Juneteenth, Black History Month, and American history year round.

Louisiana Governor's Mansion

The Louisiana Governors Mansion is the official residence of the Governor of Louisiana and his or her family. The Governor’s Mansion was built in 1963 when Jimmie Davis was Governor of Louisiana. The Mansion overlooks Capital Lake near the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge. Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal, and his family currently reside in the mansion. The Mansion was designed by the architectural firm of Annan and Gilmer of Shreveport, Louisiana. The final construction cost for the building was $893,843.00. The inspiration for the exterior design was Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana. Like many plantation homes built between 1830 and 1860, Oak Alley was designed with a second story veranda. The second-floor veranda found at Oak Alley was omitted. It was thought that the concept of a second story veranda was too informal for a Governor’s Mansion. Although the new Mansion is in the Greek Revival style, it also incorporates several Georgian features such as dormers, a fanlight of the doorway at the front entrance, and the long window on the circular stairs in the rotunda. Inside, the floor plan includes twelve bedrooms and eighteen baths, two kitchens and one kitchenette, two dining rooms, one breakfast room, a receiving room for state affairs and another for routine business, a living room, a sitting room, two butleries and two security stations for the state troopers assigned to the mansion, and two offices-one for the governor and one for a secretary. Along with the dramatic spiral stairway in the rotunda, there is an elevator running from the basement to the third floor, as well as a system of dumbwaiters. These are wise amenities, considering the size of the house: altogether, the mansion comprises some twenty-five thousand square feet, serviced by a ninety ton cooling system to battle Louisianas oppressive summer weather. The main foyer at the mansion features a mural that depicts various aspects of Louisiana History as well as symbolic references to many past Louisiana Governors. This mural was originally painted in the year 2000 under the administration of Governor Mike Foster. It was most recently updated with symbolic references relating to Hurricane Katrina and then Governor Kathleen Blanco. White Doric columns line the building on three sides. The columns are interrupted on the east side by a driveway leading to an underground garage. The exterior of the building is constructed of hand-molded brick that has been painted white. The roof is made of cleft- face Vermont non-fading, gray-green slate. Front and side porches are of the same type of slate. Lamp posts located in the parking lot east of the building were once gas lights used in Plymouth, England. The cast iron railing atop the driveway retaining walls and at the second story windows was designed from the railing used on the old Beauregard House on Chartres Street in New Orleans and was modified with the diamond pattern by the architect. The mansion sits on an 8-acre parcel of land. The grounds include a tennis court, a swimming pool, a vegetable garden, and a fountain area. The Governors Mansion is located at 1001 Capitol Access Road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802. The mansion is open to the public for tours by appointment only.

Magnolia Mound Plantation House

The Magnolia Mound Plantation House is a French Creole house constructed in 1791 near the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Many period documents refer to the plantation as Mount Magnolia. The house and several original outbuildings on the grounds of Magnolia Mound Plantation are examples of the vernacular architectural influences of early settlers from France and the West Indies. The complex is owned by the city of Baton Rouge and maintained by its Recreation Commission . It is located approximately one mile south of downtown. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Old Louisiana Governor's Mansion

The Old Louisiana Governors Mansion is located at 502 North Blvd. between Royal and St. Charles Streets in Baton Rouge and was used between 1930 and 1961; a new residence was completed in 1963. When the original Louisiana Governors mansion was termite-infested during the beginning of Huey Longs governorship, Long decided to build a new one on the site. This governors mansion is modeled after the White House in Washington D.C. supposedly because Governor Long wanted to become familiar with Washingtons White House. During the construction of this new governors mansion Huey Long refused to move into the original one. Instead after his inauguration Long stayed at the Heidelberg Hotel in Baton Rouge while his family stayed back home in Shreveport.

Pentagon Barracks

The Pentagon Barracks is a complex of buildings located at State Capitol Drive at River Road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the grounds of the state capitol. The site has been used by the Spanish, French, British, Confederate States Army, and United States Army and was part of the short-lived Republic of West Florida. During its use as a military post the site has been visited by such notable figures as Lafayette, Robert E. Lee, George Custer, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln.

Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple

The Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple is the 94th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . The first Mormon missionaries arrived in Louisiana in 1841. A few joined the church, but left Louisiana to be with the rest of the body of the church. New Orleans was the port of entry to the United States for most of the early British converts of the church. Between 1840 and 1855 around 18,500 members crossed the ocean to the U.S. and 17,600 of them first arrived in New Orleans. Because of this, most church members in New Orleans were either emigrants who could not yet afford to go further or church agents who helped the emigrants continue their journey. After 1855 when the last of the emigrants left New Orleans the church no longer had a presence in the Louisiana. In 1895 Mormon missionaries were sent again to the state and today there are more than 24,000 members in Louisiana. The LDS Church First Presidency announced on October 14, 1998 that a temple would be built in Baton Rouge and a groundbreaking ceremony was held on May 8, 1999. The temple was open to the public for tours from July 1 through 8th, 2000. LDS Church president Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated the temple on July 16, 2000. Four dedicatory services were held to accommodate the members who wanted to attend. Just before the first dedication service a cornerstone ceremony was held. The Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple serves 24,000 LDS Church members in the New Orleans, Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Denham Springs, and Monroe Louisiana stakes, as well as members in Gulfport, Hattiesburg, and Jackson, Mississippi stakes. The temple is 10,700 square feet , with a baptistry, two ordinance rooms, two sealing rooms, and a Celestial room. The exterior is made from Imperial Danby White marble quarried in Vermont, and the grounds are beautifully landscaped. The site is 6.3 acres , which includes a meetinghouse.

LSU Museum of Art

Louisiana State University is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy. The current LSU main campus was dedicated in 1926, and consists of more than 250 buildings constructed in the style of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, and occupies a 650-acre plateau on the banks of the Mississippi River. LSU is the flagship institution of the Louisiana State University System, and the largest institution of higher education in Louisiana in terms of student enrollment. In 2015, the University enrolled over 26,000 undergraduate and over 5,000 graduate students in 14 schools and colleges. Several of LSU's graduate schools, such as the E.J. Ourso College of Business and the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, have received national recognition in their respective fields of study. Designated as a land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant institution, LSU is also noted for its extensive research facilities, operating some 800 sponsored research projects funded by agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. LSU's athletics department fields teams in 21 varsity sports , and is a member of the NCAA and the SEC (Southeastern Conference). The University is represented by its mascot, Mike the Tiger.

Capitol Park Museum - Baton Rouge

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. Notable objects include the Bayou St. John submarine and Louis Armstrong's childhood bugle.

Independence Park Botanic Gardens

The Independence Park Botanic Gardens are botanical gardens located in Independence Park at 7950 Independence Boulevard, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They are open during daylight hours without admission fee. The Gardens contain displays of blooming woody plants, ground covers, and wetland plants. They include a rose garden, crape myrtle garden, sensory garden, and childrens forest.

LSU Hilltop Arboretum

The Hilltop Arboretum at Louisiana State University is an arboretum owned by the Louisiana State University. It is located at 11855 Highland Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and open to the public free of charge during daylight hours seven days a week. The arboretum was developed by Mr. and Mrs. Emory Smith, starting in 1929, and donated to the university in 1981. The Smiths planned the garden to follow the form of a cathedral: "It had a central great hall or nave, and from that - in every direction - ran hallways leading to other rooms and on to others, with niches and passageways of every description. The nave and other rooms were the grassy plots; the walls were trees, shrubs, and bamboo; the pillars were old tree trunks." The arboretum collection includes bamboo, beech, birch, black cherry, black walnut, box elder, buckeye, camellia, cherry laurel, cow oak, clethra, crape myrtle, cypress, dogwood, elm, fig, Formosan gum, green hawthorn, hickory, hop hornbeam, holly, illicium, ironwood, Japanese maple, justicia, ligustrum, magnolia, live oak, loquat, pecan, persimmon, pine, red maple, red oak, sassafras, sawtooth oak, short leaf pine, silver bell, silver maple, sourwood, spruce pine, sugar maple, sweet gum, sweet olive, sycamore, tulip tree, viburnum, vaccinium, water oak, and yaupon.

LSU Campus Mounds

The LSU Campus Mounds or LSU Indian Mounds are two Native American mounds, of the Archaic Period, on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They are part of a larger, statewide system of mounds. They were probably used for "ceremonial and marking point purposes," rather than for burial purposes. The 20 feet tall mounds are thought to be more than 5,000 years old. That date would make them part of the oldest mound system in North America, Mesoamerica or South America and also means they predate the building of the Great Pyramids of Egypt.

Baton Rouge River Center Arena

The Baton Rouge River Center Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the United States. The arena opened in 1978 and has seating for up to 8,900 for sporting events, 12,000 for concerts and 4,500 for theatre events. In addition, the arena can be combined with the exhibition hall to create more than 100,000 square feet of contiguous convention or exhibit space. The Baton Rouge River Center Arena has been home to multiple sports teams based in Baton Rouge. From 1996-2003, it was home to the Baton Rouge Kingfish hockey team of the . Also during that time, the arena was home to the Baton Rouge Bombers indoor soccer team of the from . The venue was home to two professional arena football teams, the Louisiana Bayou Beast of the in and the Baton Rouge Blaze of the in . The arena also hosts many concerts, theatre events and has hosted many professional wrestling matches.

Pete Maravich Assembly Center

The Pete Maravich Assembly Center is a 13,215-seat multi-purpose arena in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The arena opened in 1972. It is home to the Louisiana State University Tigers and Lady Tigers basketball teams, LSU Lady Tigers gymnastics team and LSU Lady Tigers volleyball team. It was originally known as the LSU Assembly Center, but was renamed in honor of Pete Maravich, a Tiger basketball legend, shortly after his death in 1988. Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer signed an act to rename the building in Maravichs honor . Maravich never played in the arena as a collegian but played in it as a member of the Atlanta Hawks in a preseason game. But his exploits while at LSU led the University to build a larger home for the basketball team, which languished for decades in the shadow of the schools football program. The Maravich Center is known to locals as "The PMAC" or "Petes Palace", or by its more nationally known nickname, "The Deaf Dome", coined by Dick Vitale. The Maravich Centers neighbor, Tiger Stadium is known as "Death Valley". The slightly oval building is located directly to the north of Tiger Stadium, and its bright-white roof can be seen in many telecasts of that stadium. The arena concourse is divided into four quadrants: Pete Maravich Pass, The Walk of Champions, Heroes Hall and Midway of Memories. The quadrants highlight former LSU Tiger athletes, individual and team awards and memorabilia pertaining to the history of LSU basketball, gymnastics and volleyball. There are 11,230 permanent seats in the arena. 6,931 upper level seats, 4,299 lower level seats and 2,000 seats on retractable risers. The “L” Club meeting room and Tiger Athletic Foundation offices are also located in the arena. Prior to building the Assembly Center, LSU played its games at John M. Parker Agricultural Coliseum, located on the southeast corner of the campus.

BREC Memorial Stadium

BREC Memorial Stadium is a 21,500-seat American football stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that opened in 1952. Besides high school football, it is also used for concerts and other outdoor events, including monster truck rallies. It features a modern press box, concession stands and restrooms. The Grantland Rice Bowl was played at the stadium from 1969-75. The stadium was dedicated by BREC, Baton Rouges parks and recreation commission, in memory of the men and women who fought and served Baton Rouge during the two World Wars and the Korean War.

LSU Soccer Stadium

The LSU Soccer Stadium is a soccer facility located on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. The facility, built in 1996, serves as the home of the LSU Lady Tigers soccer team. The two-level stadium has a seating capacity of 2,197. In 2010 and 2011, the stadium received extensive renovations which included a second-level of seating, a new press box and wrought-iron style gates and fencing with brick columns were built on the west side of the complex.

Huey P. Long Field House

Huey P. Long Field House, on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was constructed in 1932. It was named for notable U.S. Senator and state governor Huey Long. The field house is considered the original student union and included a post office, ballroom, gymnasium and also featured the largest swimming pool in the United States at the time. The field house was home to the LSU Tigers and LSU Lady Tigers swimming and diving teams until the LSU Natatorium was built in 1985. The former LSU varsity hockey team used the field house as their home venue and the former LSU boxing team also held matches at the field house in addition to Parker Coliseum. The building is currently the home of LSUs Department of Kinesiology and School of Social Work.

Baton Rouge River Center

The Baton Rouge River Center is a municipally owned multi-purpose 200,000 square feet entertainment facility located on the Mississippi River in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The facility was completed in 1977. It is maintained by a private management company, SMG, which presents more than five hundred events a year, including concerts, conventions, sporting events, trade shows and theater productions.

Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name Louisiana State Seminary of Learning Military Academy. The current LSU main campus was dedicated in 1926, and consists of more than 250 buildings constructed in the style of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, and occupies a 650-acre plateau on the banks of the Mississippi River. LSU, located in Baton Rouge, is the flagship institution of Louisiana State University, and the largest institution of higher education in Louisiana in terms of student enrollment. In 2014, the University enrolled nearly 26,000 undergraduate and over 4,500 graduate students in 14 schools and colleges. Several of LSUs graduate schools, such as the E.J. Ourso College of Business and the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, have received national recognition in their respective fields of study. Designated as a land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant institution, LSU is also noted for its extensive research facilities, operating some 800 sponsored research projects funded by agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. LSUs athletics department fields teams in 21 varsity sportsand is a member of the NCAA and the SEC . The University is represented by its mascot, Mike the Tiger.

Southern University

Southern University and AM College is a historically black college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The campus is on Scott’s Bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in the northern section of the city. The campus encompasses 512 acres, with an agricultural experimental station on an additional 372-acre site, five miles north of the main campus. The university is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the flagship institution of the Southern University System.

Southern University System

The Southern University System is a system of universities in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Its headquarters are at the Joseph Samuel Clark Administration Building on the property of the Southern University campus in Baton Rouge. The Southern University System is the only historically black college system in the United States.

United States Post Office and Courthouse–Baton Rouge

The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse-Baton Rouge, also known as Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was built in 1932. It includes Art Deco and Moderne architecture and was designed by Moise H. Goldstein and others. It served historically as a post office, as a courthouse, and as a government office building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

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Baton Rouge Zoo

Tiger Stadium

Mall of Louisiana

Old Louisiana State Capitol

Louisiana State Capitol

Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center

USS Kidd

Louisiana Art and Science Museum

Blue Bayou and Dixie Landin'

Odell S. Williams Now And Then African-American Museum

Louisiana Governor's Mansion

Magnolia Mound Plantation House

Old Louisiana Governor's Mansion

Pentagon Barracks

Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple

LSU Museum of Art

Capitol Park Museum - Baton Rouge

Independence Park Botanic Gardens

LSU Hilltop Arboretum

LSU Campus Mounds

Baton Rouge River Center Arena

Pete Maravich Assembly Center

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Baton Rouge River Center

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