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Forest Hills
By BostonUrbEx
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 10:14am
I'm guessing the Forest Hills elevated station. I can't tell whether they'd be constructing it, or doing a renovation.
I love cyanotype
By bibliotequetress
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 10:17am
No guesses. Just appreciation.
Forest Hills station
By Eastie Resident
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 10:19am
Forest Hills station being built (it was originally elevated) probably 1905 - 1909.
That's gotta be the original
By Ari O
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 10:20am
That's gotta be the original Forest Hills el station under construction, right?
train station...
By billings-field-gnome
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 10:27am
Forest Hills?
Definitely Concur
By Suldog
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 10:29am
Forest Hills, with the old Forest Hills train station to the right.
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Not to sound like a broken record
By Waquiot
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 12:15pm
Ye Olde Forest Hills Station, 1909.
Cool photo.
Hyde Park Ave on the left
By anon
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 12:33pm
Washington St on the right.
Orange Line
By MassMouse
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 1:51pm
Orange Line/Washington Street facing towards downtown. Probably when the Forest Hills station was being built.
Facing South-
By JP Runner
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 3:17pm
It looks to be facing towards Roslindale and Hyde Park. Hyde Park Ave is on the left, the brick building in the photo is still at the corner of Tower Street (convenience store on the corner) which leads up to a gate to Forest Hills Cemetary. I think you can see the turn off of Washington Street onto South Street on the right side of the photo as well.
Yeah, I think you're right.
By MassMouse
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 4:27pm
My bad!
Here's the view looking north
By clayville
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 4:45pm
Here's the view looking north up Washington Street as the el was under construction in 1908.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10041103@N06/14807408146/
The Arborway (barely a decade old) crosses in the foreground. The portion this side of the Metropolitan Coal Company building and closest to the station had massive concrete-clad piers clogging things up below, with the more typical steel girders thereafter towards downtown. Construction of the station was nearing completion by Novemeber 1909. Image from "The Boston Transit Album", 1981 Bradley H. Clarke
Can't see it -- flickr
By anon
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 6:25pm
Can't see it -- flickr flagged it as adult content.
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