It serves a small residential area sandwiched between the Neponset River, Cedar Grove Cemetery, and Dorchester Park.

It is accessible via a wooden mini-high ramp on the station's single island platform.

[4] The area that is now the small Butler Street neighborhood was still empty land in the 1870s, but was developed by the late 1880s.

[7] Passenger service on the Shawmut Branch ended on September 6, 1926 to allow the Boston Elevated Railway to construct its rapid transit Dorchester Extension to Ashmont.

[10] In 1930, the Boston Transit Department authorized the construction of an infill station at Butler Street, at an estimated cost of $13,695, to serve the small adjacent neighborhood.

A footbridge spanned both freight and trolley tracks, with a set of stairs leading to the station platform, which was covered by a canopy.