{"nrhp_refnum":"72000125","name":"North Easton Railroad Station","other_names":["Old Colony Railroad Station","See Also:North Easton Historic D"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"80 Mechanic St. (off Oliver St. on railroad right-of-way)","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Easton","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":42.069817200000045,"lon":-71.10338596099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small railroad station off Oliver Street in North Easton, Massachusetts, designed by H. H. Richardson and commissioned in November 1881 for the Old Colony Railroad. It is built of rock-faced granite on a red sandstone base.","why_significant":"It is described as the best remaining example of the small stations Richardson designed in his Richardsonian Romanesque style. It was one of five Richardson buildings commissioned by the Ames family in North Easton. Architectural historian Henry Russell Hitchcock rated it, with the now-demolished Auburndale station, as the finest of Richardson's small stations.","narrative":"Built in 1881 off Oliver Street in North Easton, this small railroad station was designed by architect H. H. Richardson for the Old Colony Railroad. It is a rectangular building of rock-faced granite on a low red sandstone foundation, with a bellcast hip roof, deep bracketed overhangs, a carriage porch and wide arched windows. Carved boar and lion heads decorate beams, lintels and bench armrests. F. L. Ames, a friend and patron of Richardson, commissioned the station and gave it to the railroad, in which the Ames family held substantial stock. It was the fourth of five Richardson buildings for the family, whose wealth came from the Easton shovel works. Historian Henry Russell Hitchcock compared it in quality to Richardson's Auburndale station, which no longer exists. This makes North Easton the best surviving example of his small stations. The building remains in good condition and is used as a museum.","period_of_significance":"1881","architect_builder":"H. H. Richardson (architect); commissioned by F. L. Ames","architectural_style":"Richardsonian Romanesque","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition, unaltered, on its original site, and owned by the Easton Historical Society. Present use is marked as museum, and the form notes that restoration work was under way.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:55.043248-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/7945/63794552/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/72000125.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000125/7f81de8296-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000125/7f81de8296-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pi.1415926535","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Easton_station_from_the_southwest,_June_2017.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi.1415926535</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Easton_station_from_the_southwest,_June_2017.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794552","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Easton_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7055286"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/north-easton-railroad-station-72000125/"}