South Station is dedicated.

Architect: Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge. Originally South Union Terminal, it is designed in the Beaux Arts style [Classical Revival style] with a clock by the E. Howard Company and located at 700 Atlantic Avenue. At the ceremony, Mayor Josiah Quincy tells a crowd of 5,000 people that, “[This station] will raise to a distinctly higher level the impression which Boston will hereafter make upon the traveler who visits our city.” The station opens on January 1, 1899, with 28 tracks serving 737 trains daily, and becomes the busiest station in the world. The train shed, the largest in the world at the time, is demolished in 1930, and the head house wings are removed in the 1970s. After the New York & New Haven Railroad goes bankrupt, the building is purchased by the Boston Redevelopment Authority in 1961. Slated for demolition in 1975, it is instead sold to the MBTA in 1978, and renovated by Skidmore, Owings, Merrill, Hugh Stubbins, and Stull & Lee in 1989.