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MBTA Shawmut Station, Boston, MA
A Historic Headhouse in a Residential Neighborhood
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Shawmut Station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Red Line is comprised of a 1927 neo-classical one-story brick headhouse with subsurface platforms set off a commercial street and nested within a middle-class residential neighborhood. The major work to this station includes restoring the headhouse, creating new vertical circulation to meet ADA requirements, structural remediation and waterproofing, upgrading of pedestrian pathways and landscape improvements. The restored headhouse design recaptures the original design intent, adding two structural elements at each side for elevator access to the platform below. Landscaping of the approaches to the station leaves buffers sound while leaving the openness required for safety at night.
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