Birchwood Street Station

Birchwood Street Station Soundex Code B623

This was the name of the present Jarvis Avenue Station of the CTA's elevated rapid transit system. This name was used for the ground-level station and was discontinued after the line was elevated.

Photos

RPWRHS photo C002-0105 shows the Birchwood Street Station, one of the stops on the Evanston division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. Built in 1886, it was located on Bryan Street (now Jarvis Avenue) just east of Ashland Avenue, near the site of the present CTA Jarvis Avenue Station. Photo 1890.

RPWRHS photo C042-DN-61524 shows the Northwestern Elevated Railroad, Birchwood Street Station, in 1913.