North Abington
General information
Location10 Railroad Street, Abington, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°7′45″N 70°56′32″W / 42.12917°N 70.94222°W / 42.12917; -70.94222
History
ClosedJune 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
Built1894
ArchitectBradford Gilbert
Architectural styleRomanesque
NRHP reference No.76001612[1]
Added to NRHPMay 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

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

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Abington Depot Restaurant Website".
  3. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for North Abington Depot". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-12.

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