North Abington station

North Abington station is a former railroad station in North Abington, Massachusetts. It is located across from the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Railroad Street, along what is today the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Plymouth/Kingston Line, and is now home to the Abington Depot restaurant.^[2]

North Abington
General information
Location	10 Railroad Street, Abington, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°7′45″N 70°56′32″W
History
Closed	June 30, 1959
Former services
Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station South Weymouth toward Boston Boston–​Plymouth Abington toward Plymouth
North Abington Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Built	1894
Architect	Bradford Gilbert
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	76001612[1]
Added to NRHP	May 13, 1976

History

Early-20th-century postcard of the station

The single-story Richardsonian Romanesque granite-and-brownstone building was designed by Bradford Lee Gilbert and built in 1893 by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NYNH&H). Construction on the building was begun immediately following the "North Abington Riot", in which railroad laborers and local townspeople fought over the town's right to allow a grade-level streetcar crossing over the NYNH&H track. The legal case over this issue set a precedent in state legal jurisprudence that a single Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice was sufficient to render binding interpretations of the law.^[3]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as North Abington Depot.^[1]

See also

• Abington station, in Abington
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Plymouth County, Massachusetts