The Refreshment Pavilion is a historic refreshment stand at Houghton's Pond

Houghton's Pond

Houghton's Pond is a spring-fed kettle hole pond in Milton, Massachusetts, south of Boston. Like many ponds and lakes in the United States, it was formed by receding glaciers about 10,000 years ago...

 in Milton, Massachusetts

Milton, Massachusetts

Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and part of the Greater Boston area. The population was 27,003 at the 2010 census. Milton is the birthplace of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and architect Buckminster Fuller. Milton also has the highest percentage of...

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It was designed by the firm of Stickney and Austin who also designed four other NRHP structures in the Blue Hills Reservation

Blue Hills Reservation

Blue Hills Reservation is a state park in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, it extends into Milton, Quincy, Braintree, Canton, Randolph, and Dedham south of Boston.-Description:...

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• the comfort station on Blue Hill Avenue
  Comfort Station
  Comfort Station is a historic "sanitary" on Blue Hill Avenue in Milton, Massachusetts.Although finely detailed in Swiss Chalet style, this is a very simple building, built in 1904 for a single purpose which it still performs today...
  
  
• the park headquarters
  Blue Hills Headquarters
  Blue Hills Headquarters is a historic building on Hillside Street in Milton, Massachusetts.It was built in 1904 as the headquarters building for the Blue Hills Reservation, which it still is....
  
  
• the MDC Police stable
  Metropolitan District Commission Stable
  The Metropolitan District Commission Stable is a historic stable on Hillside Street in Milton, Massachusetts.It was built in 1908 for the Metropolitan District Commission Police and the Massachusetts State Police mounted units. In 2004, the mounted units were disbanded and the stable was emptied...
  
  
• the Eliot Memorial Bridge
  Eliot Memorial Bridge
  The Eliot Memorial Bridge is a footbridge which was built in 1904 in memory of Charles Eliot, landscape architect to the Metropolitan Park Commission...
  
  

as well as two non-NRHP buildings

• the comfort station near the Refreshment Pavilion
• a caretaker's house.

It was built in 1920 and added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 as Refreshment on September 25, 1980, reference number 80000659. It is still in use as a refreshment stand.

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