Adams Square station

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Coordinates: 42°21′36.65″N 71°3′25.99″W / 42.3601806°N 71.0572194°W / 42.3601806; -71.0572194
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Adams Square
Adams Square station in 1897
General information
Coordinates42°21′36.65″N 71°3′25.99″W / 42.3601806°N 71.0572194°W / 42.3601806; -71.0572194
Owned byMassachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Line(s)Tremont Street subway
History
OpenedSeptember 3, 1898[1]
ClosedOctober 28, 1963[1]
Services
Preceding station Boston Elevated Railway Following station
Scollay Square
One-way operation
 Tremont Street subway Haymarket
toward North Station
Main Line Elevated
1901-1908
 Haymarket
toward Sullivan Square

Adams Square was an underground streetcar station located at

Boston, Massachusetts
. It opened in 1898 and was used until 1963.

History

The original headhouse in 1898
layout of Adams Square station

An unusual northbound-only station, Adams Square station was opened with the rest of the northern section of the Tremont Street subway on September 3, 1898. Initially designed for streetcars only, the station was retrofitted in 1901 to also handle Main Line Elevated trains, which ran through the subway until the completion of the Washington Street tunnel in 1908. Thereafter the station reverted to exclusive streetcar use.[1][2]

Scollay Square and Adams Square had similar baroque granite headhouses with four-sided clock towers designed by

Harvard were also torn down for similar reasons in that era.)[8]: 32 [9]

Adams Square was closed on October 28, 1963, as part of the Government Center renewal project, and was subsequently largely demolished and covered during the construction of Boston City Hall.[1][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Belcher, Jonathan (19 March 2016). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2016" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  2. ISBN 9780823222957
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  3. ^ Boston Transit Commission (1898). Annual report of the Boston Transit Commission, for the year ending August 15, 1898 (Report). City of Boston. pp. 45–51 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ a b Coburn, Frederick W. (November 1910). "Rapid Transit and Civic Beauty". New Boston. Vol. 1, no. 7. pp. 307–314 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Rettig, Polly M. (June 14, 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination From: Tremont Street Subway". National Park Service.
  6. ^
    ISBN 0-7524-0907-7
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  7. ^ "Will Tear Down Adams-Sq. Station". Boston Daily Globe. July 30, 1931. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  8. ISBN 9780738510477
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  9. ProQuest 758495656
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