The
Boston & Worcester Railroad (B&W), extending outwards from Boston, reached through the West Parish of
Needham in mid-1834. Rice's Crossing station opened as a
flag stop north of Glen Road soon afterward. Wellesley Farms station, which was designed by
Henry Hobson Richardson prior to his death in 1886, opened south of Glen Road to replace Rice's Crossing in 1890. Like many B&A stations, it had attractive landscaping;
Charles Mulford Robinson called it "unique, and to be remembered" in 1904. The station was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1986. In June 2021, the MBTA issued a $28 million design contract for a project to add a third track from Weston to Framingham, including reconstruction of the three Wellesley stations and West Natick station. The project was expected to cost around $400 million, of which rebuilding Wellesley Farms station would be $34 million, with completion in 2030. In May 2024, the MBTA listed Wellesley Farms as one of seven stations that would require "complex solutions" to be made accessible. ==References==