North Abington station
North Abington | |||||||||||||
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Location | 10 Railroad Street, Abington, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°7′45″N 70°56′32″W / 42.12917°N 70.94222°WCoordinates: 42°7′45″N 70°56′32″W / 42.12917°N 70.94222°W | ||||||||||||
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Closed | June 30, 1959 | ||||||||||||
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North Abington Depot | |||||||||||||
Built | 1894 | ||||||||||||
Architect | Bradford Gilbert | ||||||||||||
Architectural style | Romanesque | ||||||||||||
NRHP reference No. | 76001612[1] | ||||||||||||
Added to NRHP | May 13, 1976 |
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]
History[]
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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
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Abington Depot Restaurant Website".
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for North Abington Depot". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
External links[]
Media related to North Abington station at Wikimedia Commons
- Romanesque Revival architecture in Massachusetts
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1894
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Buildings and structures in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
- Stations along Old Colony Railroad lines
- National Register of Historic Places in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
- Former railway stations in Massachusetts
- Plymouth County, Massachusetts Registered Historic Place stubs
- Massachusetts railway station stubs