 Beginning in 1881, the Boston & Albany began a massive improvement program that included the building of over 30 new stations along its main line as well as the Highland Branch, which it bought in 1883.Famed architect H. H. Richardson was hired to design nine of these stations, including South Framingham which was commissioned in October 1883.The $62,718 station, built in 1884–85 by the Norcross Brothers company, was the largest and costliest of the nine.