INTERSECTION: Harrison County Airport

Abstract

The Harrison County Memorial Airport Terminal Building is a historic airport terminal located in Marshall, Texas roughly 20 miles west of the Texas/Louisiana State Border. The airport itself is 2.5 miles from the city center, 35 miles to Shreveport, Louisiana, and 142 miles to Dallas, Texas. The terminal was built in 1953, crossing the 50-year threshold for the National Register of Historic Places. Harrison County saw service from Trans-Texas Airways between 1953 and 1963 and sat dormant until the 1980’s when a new airport manager decided to reuse the terminal building as a fixed base operator which provides services to pilots and passengers such as fueling, basic maintenance, flight planning, courtesy cars, and more. After undergoing maintenance to keep the building usable, the airport terminal building currently remains open as a fixed base operator. In 2016, the terminal was placed on Preservation Texas’ Most Endangered Buildings List.