I-95 RI Welcome Center closed

[roadman]

Yes, since MA-128 pre-dates the interstate system (also has a service area up in Beverly on the non I-95 section.  Mass had alot of service areas on its pre-interstate freeways.  MA-24 has a set in Bridgewater, and the big gas station/truck stop on the Cape at the US-6/MA-132 interchange is technically a state-owned service plaza.

There used to be more:
* On I-95 north of Boston there used to be a set, one each direction, near Rowley, where the weigh stations are now.  They dated to when that freeway was just US-1, and I think were torn down when the highway was widened to 8 lanes in the 70s.
* On the old I-84, now a frontage road alongside modern I-84, there was a servie area on the westbound side just before the CT state line.  This dated to when that was just MA-15, and closed in the early 70s when the new I-84 was built and the old route became a local road.  There is just a vacant lot there now.
* On the Southeast Expressway, now I-93 but then just MA-3, on the southbound side in quincy just before the Furnace Brook Parkway exit.  Probably torn down in the 80s when that section of highway was widened. 

You can see them all on historic areal photo wesites. 

Recenlty the state had plans to add some more, on MA-146 in Uxbridge where the current rest areas are, and on MA-2 someplace near Gardner.

I-295 in RI was built as an interstate with fed funds, but somehow got around the no services rule.

The service plaza at the end of the Southeast Expressway/I-93 in Braintree (which was on the southbound side only) was closed in 1985.  As I recall, the state agreed to close the service plaza as a condition of receiving Federal funds for the 1984-1985 Braintree to Boston S. E. Expressway reconstruction project.

However, the Feds wanted the service plaza closed not to enable the highway to be widened, but because of the crash history associated with the short weave section between the on-ramp from the service plaza and the left-hand exit for MA 3 south, as traffic exiting the service plaza heading for MA 3 had to cross 5 lanes.

Note that the roadway re-alignment/minor widening in this area didn't occur until almost ten years later when the current HOV "zipper lane" and layover facility was constructed.

[PurdueBill]

There is also one on 128 NB in Beverly, similar in facilities and vintage to those in Lexington and Newton, all part of the 128 family of service areas. 

MassDOT does have a listing of their rest areas of all types; those on I-90 are Mass Pike ones of course.  There aren't too many full-service areas still out there.

Boy, reading about the one before the Braintree split takes me back.  I'd forgotten about that one, but remember it vividly now that I read that!