Newton Railroad Stations Historic District

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Newton Railroad Stations Historic District
NewtonMA NewtonHighlandsStationHouse.jpg
Newton Highlands station in 2011
Location Newton, Massachusetts
Built1886–1891
Architect Henry Hobson Richardson; Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge
Architectural style Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP reference No. 76002137 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 25, 1976

The Newton Railroad Stations Historic District in Newton, Massachusetts is composed of three geographically separate historic railroad stations and one baggage/express building on the former Boston and Albany Railroad Highland Branch, which was converted to MBTA Green Line D branch in 1959.

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The four buildings in Newton are the only extant stations of thirteen designed by H.H. Richardson and his successors Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge in Allston/Brighton, Newton, and Brookline for the Boston and Albany's Newton Circuit between 1881 and 1894. [2] Most originally had their grounds designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, but none of the landscaping has survived. [3]

On March 25, 1976, the district was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Woodland, Newton Highlands, and Newton Centre Railroad Stations, and Baggage and Express Building.

Structures

The District consists of four structures: [3]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. 9 July 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  2. Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl (June 1988). "Architecture for the Boston & Albany Railroad: 1881–1894". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 47 (2). doi:10.2307/990324. JSTOR   990324.
  3. 1 2 Roy, John H. Jr. (2007). A Field Guide to Southern New England Railroad Depots and Freight Houses. Branch Line Press. pp. 198–200, 261, 274. ISBN   9780942147087.

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