In 1849, David Sears laid out the Cottage Farm neighborhood and built houses for himself, his four daughters, and this house for his son, Frederick, which still stands.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

In 1849, David Sears laid out the Cottage Farm neighborhood and built houses for himself, his four daughters, and this house for his son, Frederick, which still stands. The large apparently-extended family is unidentified.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking east on Ivy St. to the right.
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Looking southeast at the original location of the house on Prescott St. Ivy St. is to the right and a faint image of the tower of the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour on the corner of Carlton and Monmouth can be glimpsed in the distance on the right. The house was built in 1851 by Amos Lawrence and, in the summer of 1899, turned ninety degrees counter clockwise and moved a small distance to its present location at 135 Ivy St. where it is now the home of the president of Boston University.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking northwest at the rear of the Prescott St. house of Amos Lawrence viewed from the location of present-day Carlton St. The house was later turned ninety degrees counter clockwise and moved a small distance to its present location at 135 Ivy St., now the home of the president of Boston University.
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The house was built in 1851 on Prescott St. by Amos Lawrence. After his death in 1886, ownership of the house was assumed by his daughter, Hettie Cunningham. By 1899, Euston St. had been opened as a public way along with an extension of Carlton St. northward from Ivy St. to Mountfort St. This created a new block suitable for development and the Cunninghams divided the block into a 2 x 3 matrix of individual lots. The house is being is being turned ninety degrees counter clockwise and moved a small distance from the center of the block to the pair of lots at the corner of Carlton and Ivy where the house is at its present location of 135 Ivy St., now the home of the president of Boston University.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

The rear of the house is on the left. To the left is 9 Prescott St., still standing. In the distance on the right is the rear of 132 Carlton St., still standing.
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138 Lancaster Terrace is on the left, the rear of 232 Summit Ave. is on the right, both still standing. Photo by Henry A. Varney, Brookline town engineer, whose car is in the photo.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Built in 1910

Park St. in front, Vernon St on the right

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In early 1908, the church moved here from its prior location at the corner of Pierce and Harvard. The Presbyterian Church then relocated from its Prospect St. location to the old Baptist Church building in early 1910. When the church was demolished in 1973 the bell was saved from the tower and is now in the courtyard of the new building on the site.

Beacon St. and Dean Rd.

Harvard St., corner Pierce St. From the series of photographs of the Village by Richard Hills.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Holden St. The steeple and underlying structure are being raised for the new building after fire destroyed the church building on the corner of Harvard and Pierce.
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Corner of Harvard St. and Linden St. Built to serve newly immigrated Irish Catholics.

Photograph by the Boston Herald newspaper on November 25, 1928 for a story on the upcoming dedication ceremony on December 12. At the time, the congregation was already the oldest in Boston at 86 years old. The still-undeveloped land on Kent St., part of a large estate, can be glimpsed on the left. Beacon St. is in the foreground.

Freeman St. , built 1912

Corner Marion St. and Harvard St.