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From: "Paul Luchter" luckyshow AT mindspring DOT com
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:55:39 -0400
Subject: North Station, Boston
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North Station (Union Station 1893-1927) Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, architects. The style is Academic Classicism. Also called Beaux Art.
(other examples: Pennsylvania Station New York, the New York Metropolitan Museum)
Union Station (I bet that in Boston it was called North Station, huh?):
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/19th/norstatn.jpg
http://www.newenglandindex.com/jpg/northstation1.jpg It looks like it had an older portion.
http://www.newenglandindex.com/jpg/northstation.jpg (slightly newer shot?)
http://www.jcballentine.com/b193.jpg
nice shed: http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/k/d/kdw1003/Geog%2041.gif


North Station:
I could find no good pictures of the North Station before the Fleet Center, so I sent the scan.
From Joe Testagrose site:
http://206.103.49.193/boston/jpg/bos092.jpg 1970
http://206.103.49.193/boston/jpg/bos085.jpg 1972...two colors on same line, that's odd?
this El just closed (1912-2004) The routes north to be replaced by b-u-ses, ain't that sweet, how is that an improvement?
Charlestown Bridge:
1899: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/bridge_1899.jpg would begin to run in 1901.
1908: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/charlestown_bridge_1908.jpg
1910: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/bridge_1910.jpg
1912: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/bridge_1912.jpg
1929: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/bridge_1929.jpg
uses, isn't that improvement?:
http://jsons.collegepublisher.com/news/2004/05/28/Bostonregion/Old-North.Station.The.Closing.Of.A.Piece.Of.Local.History-690546.shtml
The Tremont tunnel entrance: http://206.103.49.193/boston/jpg/bos042.jpg
Boston Elevated railway:
http://www.wmscnet.com/boselev1g.jpg

Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge also designed he Institute of Chicago. Also South Station in Boston (1899), Here it is with both its wings still attached:
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/soustatn.jpg What line was this El on?
http://www.newenglandindex.com/jpg/southstation1.jpg
1900: http://www.paul-n-paul.com/m009.jpg too bad it is written upon..
Nice shed: http://www.newenglandindex.com/jpg/southstation.jpg

Before South Station there was more than one railroad station on the south end.
Here is the 2nd Boston and Albany RR station (1881):
http://www.kellscraft.com/bostonillustrated/bostonillust095.jpg
On Kneeland Street not far from the B&A depot was the Old Colony RR Station:
http://www.kellscraft.com/bostonillustrated/bostonillust096.jpg
A new Old Colony station was built in Boston:
http://www.haleysteele.com/exhibition/p_boston/plates/old_colony.jpg
The Boston & Providence also had a station. It was, I think closer to the West end, or Back Bay. Authorities wanted this station area to be used for a Union Station from the south before 1870 but the B&A built the new station linked to above. Here is the Providence Railroad Station of the B&A:
http://www.kellscraft.com/bostonillustrated/bostonillust043.jpg
An interesting page on South Station:
http://home.att.net/~barrwp/boston.htm

B&M Boston Engine Terminal (What is the wheel configuration of engine 4113?):
http://www.newenglandindex.com/jpg/bm_r1.jpg

B&M:
http://www.sammleraktien-online.de/bilder/usaktien/eisenbahn/boston_maine_blau_50er.jpg

Four separate railroads had come into north Boston.
Here is a picture of three of them:
http://www.kellscraft.com/bostonillustrated/bostonillust015.jpg
Lowell Station (1872?) is on the left, Eastern Station (1863) in the middle and Fitchburg Railroad station (1847) on the right (Jenny Lind sang there 1850. Lowell RR, Eastern RR and Fitchburg RR stations. This is Causeway Street...this is where North Station is right?

the Lowell Station, built in the heart of the architectural extravagance era, 2nd Empire Revival I think it is called or Baroque Revival. Lowell Station:
http://www.kellscraft.com/bostonillustrated/bostonillust016.jpg
The Boston & Maine RR went further, to Haymarket Square.

Here is Haymarket Square in the mid 1800s, I think the building in foreground may be the B&M station but I may be completely wrong:
http://www.kellscraft.com/bostonillustrated/bostonillust017.jpg



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