Entrance seen from Beacon St.; Elbridge Wason-designed Queen Anne style homes at the bottom of Summit Ave visible on the right.This photo has an excellent view of the small ramps that were placed at the end of the planks of the wooden sidewalks.

Just west of Summit Ave. Close-up after widening of Beacon

Formerly the Elizabeth F. Raymond mansion. From a postcard.

Left to right: 41 Park St., Auburn St. entering, 61 Park St.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Residence of Daniel W. Russell, an area real estate developer. Built in 1888, no longer standing. His son, Frank A. Russell, graduated from Brookline High in 1886, spent time in Denver, married, then returned to Brookline in 1893. Both families then lived in the house. The younger Russell maintained a well-known real estate business in Brookline

In the distance on the right the mansion on the northwest corner of Beacon St. and Summit Ave. can be seen. In the distance on the left house(s) high on Corey Hill are seen. In the upstairs window there appears to be an adult holding a young child. The first listing for a coachman appears in the 1891 town directory - Patrick O’Neil.

Looking northest. Apartments #75-83 still standing. House at 71 Park is no longer standing.
[Source: Olmsted]

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

South side of Beacon St., just west of Summit Ave., is peaking through the fence on the right. View of the property and houses of Thomas Griggs, the future Griggs Rd. area. Washington St. is behind it.

House of Austin W. Benton. Beacon St. looking east to the left, Marion St. to the right. Stone wall of Raymond Mansion visible across Beacon. The house, whose rear section was right at the edge of Beacon Street, was moved shortly after this photo was taken for the 1887 widening. It appears that the house was moved twice: first, it was rotated to face the apex of Beacon and Marion thus moving its extended tail sections away from Beacon to make room for the additional 110 feet of the widening; second, back to its original alignment but further down Marion where is still stands today.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking southeast on Marion St. from Beacon St. The house on the left is the only one remaining of those pictured in the foreground. It originally fronted on Marion St. and its out buildings trailed back to Beacon St. For the 1887 widening of Beacon St. the house, and out buildings (partially visible to the left here), were rotated to this position. The house was later moved further down Marion where is still stands today.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]

Beacon St. at Short St. No longer standing. Raymond mansion to the right on Summit Ave.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Short Street is immediately to the right. Built 1894, still standing.

The inbound side of Beacon St. looking east. From left to right, all buildings still standing:

• The “Royal” apartment building at 1469 Beacon St.
• The “Empire” apartment building (entrance obscured) at 1471 Beacon St.
• The Community Service Kitchen at 1473-75 Beacon St. There are two delivery wagons parked in front.
• 1477 Beacon St., apartment building. The visible entrance has been replaced by a window and made part of an apartment.

The Community Service Kitchen was opened in June 1919 by two young Newton brothers-in-law: Guy E. Wyatt and Roger A. Wheeler, both 23. Wyatt had been in the leather business and Wheeler had left Columbia University to serve in the ambulance corps in World War I. (He was awarded the Croix de Guerre for his role in rescuing wounded French soldiers while under fire.) Initially operating solely as a business that prepared and delivered full meals to customers, it expanded two months after opening to #1475, adding an eat-in restaurant. Despite adopting a name more apt to describe a "soup kitchen", Wyatt and Wheeler targeted middle- and upper-class women in Brookline, Newton, and the Back Bay. It’s advertising read: “Dine at home or dine with us. Announcing Brookline’s newest restaurant. A quiet refined home-like dining room.”
[Source: Massachusetts Historical Society]

To the right is 1477 Beacon St. Both are still standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking east on Beacon St. approaching the intersection with Marion St. On the right are the buildings at #1471 and #1477, still standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Grace Stevenson House on Corey Hill. Houses on Prospect St. visible on the left of photo.

Grace Stevenson House on north side of Beacon St., just west of Short St.. House of H. B. Eager on Mason Terrace (formerly Prospect St.) visible in the upper left of photo.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.

Looking west on Beacon; property of John M. Clark, house in the distance

At the entrance to Summit Ave. There are posters in several windows advertising movies that were playing April 11–17, 1936. Desire, starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, and The Country Doctor, starring The Dionne Quintuplets, were both playing at the Uptown Theater on Huntington Ave., next to Horticultural Hall. Desire was also playing at the Capitol Theater at 1266 Comm Ave. in Allston, a little west of Harvard Street. were at the Uptown and Desire at the Capitol in Allston. and “The Country Doctor. Both are from 1936. Shown from right to left are:

• #1406-1408, apartments
• #1410, S. M. Morse, tailor
• #1410A, vacant
• #1412, Radio Market Co., Meats
• #1412A, Greater Boston Cleansers and Dyers, possibly vacant
• #1412B, Summit Pharmacy (note man holding a tripod and camera(?) in front)
• #1414, Henry’s Beauty Salon
• #1414A, Economy Grocery, forerunner to Stop & Shop
• #1414B, Henry Wong, laundry (note man in the window)

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

The store fronts on the right, which are slanted, are on the other side of the entrance to Summit Ave. From left to right are:

• A reelection poster for Herbert Hoover on the side wall. This poster appears to be an unusual updated version of the earlier well-known “Keep Him on the Job” poster.
• #1432A, Jacob Bell, tailor
• #1432, The Vincent Shoppe, a beauty shop
• #1430A, vacant
• #1430, A & R Bros., Grocers

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]