Dover Street Station

A couple of views of the old Dover Street Station at the intersection of East Berkeley St and Washington St, Boston, that I took in the late 70's. [Click To Enlarge]

































Dover Street was just one of the stops along the Elevated Mainline that ran along Washington Street and ended at the Forest Hills Station.

An excerpt from the Historic American Engineering Record:

Significance: Elevated structure is the last remaining portion of a formerly extensive elevated rapid transit system built at the turn of the century in Boston. / This portion of the Orange Line elevated is historically significant as Boston's first elevated line, built during a period of world-wide interest and experimentation with elevated railways; and as the product of Boston's last privately-owned transit company, the Boston Elevated Railway Company. Architecturally, it is significant for the quality of its original station architecture, which was designed by the prominent local architect, Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow. Later alterations were carried out under consultation with other leading Boston architects, such as Robert Swain Peabody and Edmund Wheelwright. In general, it represented the most advanced transportation planning of its day and is a good case study, on a small scale, of rapid transit at the turn of the century.

Fenix is currently doing a series on Roxbury and the Dudley Square area. I found an interesting photo that shows the proximity of the old Dudley Street Station to one of the buildings featured in her post today. For the entire series of photos of the Boston Elevated Railway, Elevated Mainline, Washington Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA visit the Historic American Engineering Record site.



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