In late 1906, transit magnate Henry Melville Whitney built a new station to serve his nearby Beaconsfield Hotel.

It was built in a heavy stone style similar to the Richardsonian Romanesque stations constructed elsewhere on the B&A system in the previous two decades.

[1] The 1906-built station was torn down to build a parking lot; a small wooden shelter was built on the inbound platform.

[1] The station has not been substantially modified during the MBTA era, though a heated shelter for fare machines on the outbound side was added around 2006.

[11] A preliminary design contract for accessibility modifications at the four stations was issued in February 2021.

[12][13] The station platforms will be raised and rebuilt, the wood shelter repaired, and a path constructed under Dean Road to Waldstein Playground.

[17] Construction at the four stations took place primarily over the weekends of October 5–6 and 19–20, 2024, leaving them "generally accessible".