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Newton Railroad Stations Historic District
Historic district in Massachusetts, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
Newton Railroad Stations Historic District | |
![]() Newton Highlands station in 2011 | |
Location | Newton, Massachusetts |
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Built | 1886–1891 |
Architect | Henry Hobson Richardson; Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge |
Architectural style | Richardsonian Romanesque |
NRHP reference No. | 76002137[1] |
Added to NRHP | March 25, 1976 |
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.