After Holly Springs’s railroad buildings, including part of the hotel, were burned in the Civil War, a new freight depot was built to the north in 1876, but it was not until 1886 that the Illinois Central Railroad erected a new passenger facility, incorporating what remained of the old hotel. J. B. Lee, an Illinois Central master carpenter, supervised the construction of what became the grandest nineteenth-century railroad station in any Mississippi small town. The two-and-a-half-story brick building combines elements of Richardsonian Romanesque and Second Empire styles and features three towers with pyramidal roofs. The building housed ticket and telegraph offices, separate waiting rooms for black and white passengers, and a large dining room on the first floor, with hotel facilities above. Passenger service ceased in the 1930s, and after serving various functions the building has become an event venue.