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
Location10 Railroad Street, Abington, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°7′45″N 70°56′32″W
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

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. "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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