The Pinelawn station originally had two different station houses with their own histories. Both were created to serve
Pinelawn Cemetery,
Wellwood Cemetery, and other cemeteries in the vicinity. The first station opened as a
flag stop on the northeast corner of Wellwood Avenue in 1895 as
Melville, a name it maintained until 1897. From there it would be named
Pinelawn (Melville) and finally
Pinelawn in 1899. Long Island Avenue was also shifted slightly south, with the road's old alignment becoming a parking lot for the station with a drop-off area. ==Station layout==