Looking southeast from the railroad tracks in the vicinity of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum. From left to right at the base of the hill in the distance is Eliot St.
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Looking southward at Eliot St. from the vicinity of the rear of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum. At the far left is 261 Eliot St. To the right a car exiting Willow Crescent onto Eliot St. Further on the right newly-built houses can be viewed on Cleveland Rd. as it descends to Eliot St.
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Looking southwest toward Reservoir Rd. from the vicinity of the rear of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum. The house in the center is 171 Crafts Rd. Visible in front of it is a waste weir of the Cochituate Aqueduct which ran along Reservoir Rd. to the Brookline Reservoir on Boylston St. The waste weir is still standing. The aqueduct was not used after 1951.
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Looking southwest from the old Reservoir Lane at the raised aqueduct that runs along Reservoir Rd. The house is 171 Crafts Rd. Visible in front of it is a waste weir of the Cochituate Aqueduct which ran along Reservoir Rd. to the Brookline Reservoir on Boylston St. The waste weir is still standing. The aqueduct was not used after 1951.
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Looking northwest. Looking left to right from mid photo:

• Indistinct views of the rears of 285 and 295 Reservoir Rd.
• 57 Reservoir Lane
• 325 Reservoir Rd. (Newton), the white house next to the pumping station
• 2442 Beacon St., the rear of the pumping station

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Looking westerly at the rear of houses on Reservoir Rd.
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Looking northeast from Cotswold Rd. 301 Clark Rd. is on the left, #295 on the right, both still standing.
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Looking east from today’s Brookline Hills MBTA stop before the erection of the bridge over the tracks on Cypress St. in late 1891. In the center is the factory building of the E. S. Ritchie Co. which still stands today as part of a 2005 condominium project at 110 Cypress St. On the right is an apartment building likely at 124 Cypress St. followed by the rear of apartment buildings on Boylston St.
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In the rear left is the house at 86 Cypress St. at the corner of Davis Ave. In the rear right is the factory building of the E. S. Ritchie Co. On top the bridge barely discernible is the chimney stack of a steam engine being used to mix the cement.
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Looking west from #148. The sign for Walnut Path can be seen in the left foreground followed by the Lincoln School buildings. On the right is the brick Boylston School building (no longer standing) followed by 199-201 Boylston St., still standing.
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This is a picture of the house before the regrading of Boylston St. Photographer Richard Hills was a jeweler and watchmaker in Boston who later went into business with his brother. Between 1874 and 1876 he produced some of the most important and iconic photographic records of Brookline Village. The pictures were taken as stereoviews but little is currently known about this work.
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This is a picture of the house after the regrading of Boylston St. Photographer Richard Hills was a jeweler and watchmaker in Boston who later went into business with his brother. Between 1874 and 1876 he produced some of the most important and iconic photographic records of Brookline Village. The pictures were taken as stereoviews but little is currently known about this work.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]

Looking north from the north side of Boylston St. On the left is 135/137 Boylston St. and squeezed right up next to it is #133. On the far right is a partial view of #115. Behind them the railroad tracks can be glimpsed. The large mansard house in the distance is the rear of 50-52 Davis Avenue, still standing.
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This is the business of Burton W. Neal Sr., carpenter and builder, just west of the Lincoln School, He was succeeded in the business by his namesake son who became a prominent builder and citizen in Brookline.
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House of Burton W. Neal Sr., carpenter and builder, just west of the Lincoln School, He was succeeded in the business by his namesake son who became a prominent builder and citizen in Brookline. There remains today a similar stone wall just west of the Lincoln School.

From Photographs of Brookline: taken about 1876 / Richard Hills. Call No.: BROOKLINE/Special (CAGE B.R. 974 H6), Brookline Public Library.
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Cameron St. circumscribed three sides of a square with the fourth side being Boylston St. This view is on the north segment looking east. All buildings are still standing. On the right they are pumping water out of the basement of 14 Smythe St. In the distance on the left is the building at 48 and 50 Cameron St. and, on the right, the apartment building spanning 47 – 51 Cameron St.
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Looking west on Boylston St. toward Cypress St. On the south side of Boylston from left to right:

• 316 Boylston St., the Boylston Garage, corner partially visible
• Southeast corner of Boylston and Cypress St., the large house of Annie C. Crocker
• Southwest corner of Boylston and Cypress St., store fronts, still standing
• 402 Boylston St., house

On the north side of Boylston from left to right:

• Northwest corner of Boylston and Cypress St., the large curved building of storefronts and apartments, still standing, barely visible
• Northeast side of Boylston and Cypress St., apartment buildings 351 to 299 Boylston St. A man and a woman are viewed in the second-floor window of #305.
• #293 Boylston St., business of B. W. Neal, builder

The couple in the window of #305 are Elizabeth (Ryan) Grennan, 37, and her husband, fireman Thomas Grennan, 40. They raised five children – three boys and two girls. In 1917, the children ranged in age from 1 to 13. Two of the boys became doctors – one a podiatrist and the other a veterinarian – and one of the daughters became a nurse. The other daughter became a teacher and the other son a corrections officer, eventually rising to superintendent of the state prison in Concord.

At the time of this photo, Thomas Grennan was the driver and a hose man on one the engines stationed at the Washington Square firehouse. Six years later, he was promoted to lieutenant and transferred to the Monmouth Street station (now the Brookline Arts Center). His picture appeared in the Boston Globe at that time. He died in 1961 at the age of 84. Elizabeth died in 1967 at the age of 88.
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Cameron St. circumscribed three sides of a square with the fourth side being Boylston St. This view is on the west segment looking north. On the right are number 11 and 15 Cameron St. which are still standing and in the distant rear are houses on Elm St. and Davis Ave. which are still standing.
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