Newton Highlands Railroad Station

This property was constructed for the Boston and Albany Railroad as part of a series of stations designed by renowned architect Henry Hobson Richardson and landscape architect Fredrick Law Olmstead during the 1880s. Richardson died in April 1886, two months before the railroad awarded the commission for Newton Highlands Station to Richardson's key staff Shepley, Rutlan and Coolidge who continued Richardson's practice. This station was completed in 1887 at a cost of $12,578. The lower story of the building was created in 1905 when the tracks for the entire line were depressed to pass under Walnut and other streets.