In August of 1902 Teddy Roosevelt began a tour of New England which began in New York on the 22nd where he became the first President to ever parade in an automobile. Traveling north by train he was in Old Orchard beach. ME on the 26th, he was in Lawrence on the same day that morning. He would visit again in 1912.
By this time the station and just about every area railroad had been consumed by the Boston and Maine R.R. This was the So Lawrence station, at the time one of three in the city. It, along with the M&L station on Essex St. behind Theater Row and the terminal beneath the Opera House would be replaced by 1931 with a newer station further down the tracks across from the Central Bridge on the Merrimack.