Constructed by the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, it was one of the first stations opened on the branch in April 1896.

[1] Douglas service was significantly streamlined on December 9, 1951, part of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)'s broader overhaul of the Metropolitan's lines.

[2] On the night of March 13, 1897, two men attempted to kill Thomas H. Tyrrell, the station agent at 14th Place.

[3] They fired a bullet at Tyrrell's head, but a wire in the agent booth's screen caught and split it.

It had two wooden side platforms with cast-iron canopies with hipped roofs of corrugated, in common with the other stations on the Metropolitan's lines.