The Brighton Abattoir was a

slaughterhouse A slaughterhouse, also called abattoir (), is a facility where animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a packaging facility. Slaughterhouses that produce meat that is no ...

located in

Brighton, Boston Brighton is a former town and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, located in the northwestern corner of the city. It is named after the English city of Brighton. Initially Brighton was part of Cambridge, and known as "L ...

. It operated across Market Street from the

Brighton Stock Yards The Brighton Stock Yards were stockyards located in Brighton, Boston. It operated across Market Street from the Brighton Abattoir, as cattle would be loaded into rail cars of the Boston and Albany Railroad The Boston and Albany Railroad was a ...

, as cattle would be located into rail cars of the

Boston and Albany Railroad The Boston and Albany Railroad was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Albany, New York, later becoming part of the New York Central Railroad system, Conrail, and CSX Transportation. The line is currently used by CSX for freight. Pass ...

and transported west from the yards. The abattoir was established in 1872 and closed in 1957. Its original buildings were designed by the Boston architect Abel C. Martin.''Fifth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, January, 1874'' (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1874)

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