Newton Center (MBTA station)

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Newton Center is a surface-level rapid transit station located in Newton Centre, Massachusetts on the Green Line "D" Branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Like the other surface level stations on the "D" Branch, it opened on July 4, 1959.

The first station at this site opened in 1852 on Langley Road as a part of the Charles River Railroad.[1] The 1880s Boston and Albany Railroad depot building, designed by H. H. Richardson in 1886 and was finished by Richardson’s successor firm of Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. The interior of the building is now a Starbucks coffee shop containing a sign that indicates when a Boston-bound train is arriving.

The City of Newton spells the name of the village as Newton Centre, in the English manner, which is the historically correct spelling, while the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ("the T") spells its station Newton Center in the modern American manner.