Boston & Maine Passenger Station
Beverly, Massachusetts
10 Park Street
1897
Formally known to local residents as "The
Beverly Depot".
Listed on the Massachusetts State Register of Historic Places on October 11,
1979
The station is 140 feet by 42 feet. It is made of red brick, trimmed in brown
stone, and red tile roof. A fireplace was installed in the Southern end
of the general waiting room, which featured a Knoxville marble water fountain
as its centerpiece. It once was staffed by 33 employees until passenger
service ended in 1965. After fire damaged the former baggage room in
1971, the new private owner converted the station into
The Beverly
Depot Restaurant.
Passenger service is available with special provisions for parking and a
heated waiting area.
Sources of interest are shown at the
bottom of this page.
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Sources:
Gilbert, Bradford Lee,
Sketch
Portfolio of Railroad Stations and Kindred Structures,
1895, [New York: Railroad Gazette]
Potter, Janet Greenstein, Great
American Railroad Stations, 1996, pg. 85. [New York:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.]
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