North Abington station

North Abington
North Abington
General information
Location	10 Railroad Street, Abington, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°7′45″N 70°56′32″W / 42.12917°N 70.94222°W
History
Closed	June 30, 1959
Former services
	North Abington Depot
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Built	1894
Architect	Bradford Gilbert
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	76001612
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

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]