It is located in the Bellevue Hill section of West Roxbury.

The station originally opened around 1855 on the Boston and Providence Railroad's West Roxbury Branch.

A stone station building, similar to one constructed at Mount Hope station the previous year, was built in 1885.

[3] The MBTA expanded the parking lot in the early 1990s.

[4] Media related to Highland station (MBTA) at Wikimedia Commons