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Boston & Providence Railroad, Stoughton Station, 53 Wyman Street, Stoughton

Boston & Providence Railroad, Stoughton Station, 53 Wyman Street, Stoughton, Norfolk County, MA. Surveyed as HAER MASS,11-STOU,3-, with 1 photograph and a 130-word written history.

From the record

“The train station at Stoughton is one of the last remaining towered stations built in Massachusetts by the railroads during the late and early century.”

Written record, HAER MASS,11-STOU,3- survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER MASS,11-STOU,3- · the record runs 130 words · one of 94 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Boston & Providence Railroad, Stoughton Station, 53 Wyman Street, Stoughton, Norfolk County, MA, photograph filed with the federal survey

1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Significance

51 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER MASS,11-STOU,3-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

The train station at Stoughton is one of the last remaining towered stations built in Massachusetts by the railroads during the late and early century. It is also the first and probably the most significant public structure designed by Charles Brigham. Transmitted: ,Dan Clement, with historical information written by Bill Lebovich.

In context

Stoughton, Massachusetts The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Norfolk County, Massachusetts 278 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Stoughton

4 records

The federal surveyors worked through Stoughton building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
New Haven Railroad Station, photograph filed with the federal surveyNew Haven Railroad StationHABS MASS,11-STOU,5-274 words
Stoughton Water Works, photograph filed with the federal surveyStoughton Water WorksHAER MASS,11-STOU,4-159 words
Samuel Atherton House, photograph filed with the federal surveySamuel Atherton HouseHABS MASS,11-STOU,2-44 words
Washington Hotel, photograph filed with the federal surveyWashington HotelHABS MASS,11-STOU,1-36 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER MASS,11-STOU,3-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from linked records; page labels and counts are clearly marked as presentation or calculations.