Boston & Albany Railroad Station (Wellesley Hills)

The Wellesley Hills station was designed by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson in 1885 for the Boston & Albany Railroad [# Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, H.H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works, MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1984] . This station was the last in a series of stations designed by Richardson, all featuring rough-cut light colored stone with dark stone trim around windows and doors, slate roofs, and varying amounts of decorative dark stone carvings [# Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, H.H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works, MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1984] . The lower portion of this station is still used by the Framingham/Worcester Line (connecting Boston, MA to Worchester, MA) of the MBTA Commuter Rail, see Wellesley Hills (MBTA station). The upper portion now houses an art gallery [http://azfineartgallery.com/] and a dry cleaners. The upper portion (street facing) has been renovated and the original roofing has been removed (see photos on the art gallery's website). However the sides and back (rail facing) sides of the building have been preserved, though the windows are boarded up and large air conditioning units have been installed.

References

Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, H.H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works, MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1984

http://azfineartgallery.com/