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Mystery platform under construction in Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out what this is and when the photo was taken. See it larger.

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I'm guessing the Forest Hills elevated station. I can't tell whether they'd be constructing it, or doing a renovation.

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No guesses. Just appreciation.

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Forest Hills station being built (it was originally elevated) probably 1905 - 1909.

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That's gotta be the original Forest Hills el station under construction, right?

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Forest Hills?

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Forest Hills, with the old Forest Hills train station to the right.

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Ye Olde Forest Hills Station, 1909.

Cool photo.

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Washington St on the right.

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Orange Line/Washington Street facing towards downtown. Probably when the Forest Hills station was being built.

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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.

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My bad!

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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

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Can't see it -- flickr flagged it as adult content.

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