The first Taunton station was constructed in 1866 when the Dighton and Somerset Railroad (owned by the Old Colony & Newport Railway) was opened.

[2] The 1876 building, a distinctive brick Italianate structure, is the only surviving railroad station in the city.

It has a main hip roof with modillioned eave and corbelled cornice, and a steeply pitched central gable section.

At the track level a second roof is supported by large wooden brackets.

[3] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Old Colony Railroad Station in 1984.