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Item Title
West End Street Railway, Cleveland Circle Car House, Chestnut Hill Avenue & Beacon Street, Brookline, Norfolk County, MA
LocationChestnut Hill Avenue & Beacon Street vicinity,
Brookline, MA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER MA-43
Building/structure dates:
1890 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1982 demolished
Significance: The Cleveland Circle Car House was a depot for the West End Street Railway, the first electric streetcar line in Boston, established in 1889. In the 1890s, this became the largest electric streetcar system in the nation. Frank Sprague electrified the original line, and by 1891, the company operated 217 miles of street railways, much the largest electrified trackage of any system in the country. The Car House was a wood frame building, and featured bracketed cornices and other classical revival detail.
Subjects
Railroad StationsWooden BuildingsTransportation
Related Names
Sprague , Frank
West End Street Railway
Lowe, Jet, Photographer
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. General view of the Car House
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