CONSTANT EVOLUTION: THE HISTORY OF BOSTON’S SOUTH STATION

When the railroad committee of the Massachusetts legislature decided to build a union station at the south end of Boston, the Boston Terminal Company formed to develop it. The New Haven Railroad, The Boston and Albany Railroad Company, The New England Railroad Company, The Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation, and the Old Colony Railroad Company decided on a $9 million, 35-acre area adjacent to Fort Point Channel. Globe Archive

Boston Terminal Company

When the railroad committee of the Massachusetts legislature decided to build a union station at the south end of Boston, the Boston Terminal Company formed to develop it.

The New Haven Railroad, The Boston and Albany Railroad Company, The New England Railroad Company, The Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation, and the Old Colony Railroad Company decided on a $9 million, 35-acre area adjacent to Fort Point Channel.

Pictured: The basement floor plan for South Station drawn in December 1896.

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