A grand triumphal arch frames the entrance to Boston's original North Station in this richly hand-colored Edwardian-era view — the towering white stone archway with Ionic columns dwarfs the dark-clad pedestrians below, one woman sheltering under a parasol as a horse-drawn carriage waits at the curb, capturing a city at the cusp of the automobile age. The station, designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and opened in 1893 for the Boston & Maine Railroad, was demolished in 1927 to make way for the larger North Station built beneath the Boston Garden arena — making surviving early postcards of its magnificent Beaux-Arts façade genuinely scarce. This unused example bears the catalog number 2877 in the upper right corner and was printed in Germany for the Souvenir Post Card Co., a hallmark of the high-quality photochrome production common in the 1901–1907 undivided-back era. The card remains unposted and uncirculated, with vivid color retention and only minor edge softening.