The Durham Train Station was originally built in 1896 in Lynn, MA. It served that community until 1911, when it was replaced by a much larger station.

The small Richardsonesque station was completely dismantled and transported to Durham, where it was reconstructed in every detail and served the University and the town as a train station until the 1960's.

A few years after its closing, the University purchased the station from the B&M Railroad for $1.00.

Since the 1970's it has been utilized as an educational facility by the Restaurant Management program of the Thompson School of Applied Sciences. The building remains one of the best examples of turn-of-the-century railroad architecture in New England.

On the right, the Durham Train Station C. 1923

The Durham Train Station today

B&W photographs courtesy of Images of America: Durham, A Century in Photographs, Published by Acadia Publishing 1996