Wellesley Farms (MBTA station)
WELLESLEY FARMS
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File:Wellesley Farms Railroad Station MA 01.jpg
Wellesley Farms station in 2009
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Location | 90 Croton Street Wellesley, Massachusetts |
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Owned by | Town of Wellesley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parking | 199 spaces ($4.50 daily) 4 accessible spaces |
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Bicycle facilities | 16 spaces | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1830s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1890 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Passengers (2013) | 558 (weekday inbound average)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wellesley Farms Railroad Station
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Location | Croton Street Extension, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Built | 1890 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architect | H.H. Richardson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architectural style | Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
NRHP Reference # | 86000259[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Added to NRHP | February 14, 1986 |
Wellesley Farms is a regional rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Framingham/Worcester Line, located in the Wellesley Farms section of Wellesley, Massachusetts. The current station building, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson in 1886 and constructed in 1890, has been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as Wellesley Farms Railroad Station since 1986.[2]
With 558 daily boardings in 2013, it is the least-used station on the line outside Route 128, although still around average for stations on the system.[1]
History
The Boston & Worcester Railroad (B&W), extending outwards from Boston, reached through the West Parish of Needham in mid-1834.[3] Rice's Crossing station opened as a flag stop north of Glen Road soon afterward.[4] In 1839, the line was double tracked through the area.[5]
Wellesley Farms station, which was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson prior to his death in 1886, opened south of Glen Road to replace Rice's Crossing in 1890.[4] Like many B&A stations, it had attractive landscaping; Charles Mulford Robinson called it "unique, and to be remembered" in 1904. [6]
The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[2] In July 2004, the MBTA closed a paved crossing between the crossings in response to concerns about safety. Similar crossings exist at some other MBTA stations, but the agency's policy is to eliminate grade crossings whenever possible when building or renovating stations.[7]
References
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External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- MBTA - Wellesley Farms
- Google Maps Street View: Croton Street entrance, Glen Road entrance, Hundreds Road entrance
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- Pages with broken file links
- MBTA Commuter Rail stations in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
- Railway stations opened in 1890
- Stations along Boston and Albany Railroad lines
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Wellesley, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
- Massachusetts railway station stubs
- Norfolk County, Massachusetts Registered Historic Place stubs