| North Abington | |||||||||||||
| Style: | New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad | ||||||||||||
| Address: | 10 Railroad Street, Abington, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 42.1292°N -70.9422°W | ||||||||||||
| Closed: | June 30, 1959 | ||||||||||||
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| Other Services Header: | Former services | ||||||||||||
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.[1]
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.[2]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as North Abington Depot.