Looking northeast, the Robert Winthrop School building is just to the right. This building adjoined the pipe yard of the Brookline Water Dept. A liquidation sale of its contents was held in June 1974 and the building was razed by the Brookline Redevelopment Authority.

From a notebook of property-appraisal photos taken in 1965 and early 1966 for “The Marsh Urban Renewal Project” run by the Brookline Redevelopment Authority. Only a few scattered peripheral structures remain today.

Standing on Brookline Ave. looking west on Pearl St. The Winthrop School is just off screen on the right. From left to right:

• 93 Pearl St.
• 89 Pearl St.
• 85 Pearl St.
• 81 Pearl St., on the corner
• Pearl St., takes a left turn
• 84 Pearl St. across the street

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

On the left is a partial view of the Gulf station at the corner of Brookline Ave. and Lower Washington St. In the middle is 85 River Rd., an apartment building that fronted on 682/684 Brookline Ave. On the right is the rear of 676 Brookline Ave., a building still standing in 2025, one of the very few not removed during the urban renewal project of the 1970s.

From a notebook of property-appraisal photos taken in 1965 and early 1966 for “The Marsh Urban Renewal Project” run by the Brookline Redevelopment Authority. Only a few scattered peripheral structures remain today.

Looking north from Lower Washington St. Construction on the Hearthstone Plaza is in progress, the first stage of the leveling and reconstruction of the area then known as “The Marsh” by the Brookline Redevelopment Authority. Groundbreaking took place in February 1969 so the photo is late 1969/early 1970. Pearl St. is in the middle. Some buildings have already been razed for the large parking lot and the rest will be razed in the next few years. In the upper right is the large smoke stack of Brannen’s Laundry was there for 75 years and even considered to be an historic landmark of sorts when it had to be torn down in 1980.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

The house in the middle is now a raised parking lot.

From a notebook of property-appraisal photos taken in 1965 and early 1966 for “The Marsh Urban Renewal Project” run by the Brookline Redevelopment Authority. Only a few scattered peripheral structures remain today.