The following summary is derived from the inscription attending the photograph and involves some speculation. The house, on Walnut St. at the northeast corner with Warren St. at what is now addressed as 30 Warren St., is known by the names of some of its owners over the years, the “Gridley-Hulton” house and the “Gardner-Sumner house. The timeline is:

• 1740: built by Nathaniel Gardner, a Boston merchant
• Purchased as a summer retreat by notorious Tory, Henry Hulton, who entertained British soldiers at the house during the early years of the Revolutionary War.
• Hulton’s property is confiscated and the house is sold
• 1877: acquired by Moses Williams. It has to be assumed that the major alterations to the upper story of the sides of the house that appear in this photo were made by him. It is a possibility that, seated on the porch, are son, Hugh or Moses, Moses Williams, and wife, the former Martha C. Fininley.
• Circa 1886: Moses Williams builds the house that still stands at 30 Warren St. and demolishes this existing house.

[ref. Brookline by Hardwicke and Reed]
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

The Hunts and their daughter lived here with five-six servants. The house was built in 1885 for Moses Williams and it still stands.

The photograph was taken by Thomas E. Marr, then well-known as a photographer of wealthy area residents.
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Looking north from 116 Warren, no longer standing.
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Designed by architects Chapman & Frazer, house is still standing. Frederick Clarke Hood, a principal in the Hood Rubber Company, bought it in 1900 and hired Olmsted in 1901 to do the landscaping.
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This is a rare photo of the house prior to its transformation by Frederick Law Olmsted who purchased it in May, 1883. The house was built in 1810 by Joshua Child Clark and sold to Olmsted by Clark’s two living daughters, Sarah and Susannah Clark. The sisters were persuaded to sell the house, which was not for sale at the time, provided that Olmsted build them a cottage behind the house where they would continue to live.

Built in 1810 for Deacon Joshua Clark. Purchased by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1881 who maintained his office there. Remained with the Olmsted firm until 1979.

House of Francis W. Welch (1808 - 1899). House and stone walls are still standing.
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Built 1806; moved to Shirley-Eustis House (Roxbury) grounds in 1999

Located just south of Boylston St., no longer standing.
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This house, which still stands, was built in the early 1840s by Stephen Higginson Perkins, one of several Perkins family members who had had houses in the area of Warren St. Charles Head purchased the house in 1846 and added the large tower to the structure purportedly to be able to view the annual July 4th fireworks display on the Boston Common. He lived there until his death in 1889 and his widow remained until her death in 1901. Cora Codman Ely purchased the house and moved in in 1925. It was located right next door to the long-time home of her parents and siblings at 164 Warren St. She remarried in 1929 and she and her husband continued to live in the house.
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This house, which still stands, was built in the early 1840s by Stephen Higginson Perkins, one of several Perkins family members who had had houses in the area of Warren St. Charles Head purchased the house in 1846 and added the large tower to the structure purportedly to be able to view the annual July 4th fireworks display on the Boston Common. He lived there until his death in 1889 and his widow remained until her death in 1901. Cora Codman Ely purchased the house and moved in in 1925. It was located right next door to the long-time home of her parents and siblings at 164 Warren St. She remarried in 1929 and she and her husband continued to live in the house.

From Random Recollections, Volume One by Cora Codman Wolcott

This house, which still stands, was built in the early 1840s by Stephen Higginson Perkins, one of several Perkins family members who had had houses in the area of Warren St. Charles Head purchased the house in 1846 and added the large tower to the structure purportedly to be able to view the annual July 4th fireworks display on the Boston Common. He lived there until his death in 1889 and his widow remained until her death in 1901. Cora Codman Ely purchased the house and moved in in 1925. It was located right next door to the long-time home of her parents and siblings at 164 Warren St. She remarried in 1929 and she and her husband continued to live in the house.

From Random Recollections, Volume One by Cora Codman Wolcott

This is the original house of the family of James M. Codman and Henrietta Sargent Codman, it is no longer standing. The Codmans married in 1858 and built this house on the sprawling estate of Ignatius Sargent, Henrietta’s father. It had a confusing sequence of addresses. It was for many years addressed as 362 Walnut St. and accessed from a long dirt path that later became Codman Rd. An access path from Warren St. was added circa 1894 which coincided with two sons reaching adulthood and being listed in the town directory. Their address for what is believed to be the same house was 164 Warren St. and both parties were listed separately in the town directory for a number of years.

The final living occupant of the house was the Codman’s son, James M. Codman Jr., a lawyer who never married and lived alone in the house. When he died in 1925, his sister, Cora Codman Ely who was living right next door at 130 Warren St., inherited the house. She had it torn down and a new one constructed in 1928 which was subsequently readdressed as 235 Sargent Rd. and still stands.
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This is the original house of the family of James M. Codman and Henrietta Sargent Codman, it is no longer standing. The Codmans married in 1858 and built this house on the sprawling estate of Ignatius Sargent, Henrietta’s father. It had a confusing sequence of addresses. It was for many years addressed as 362 Walnut St. and accessed from a long dirt path that later became Codman Rd. An access path from Warren St. was added circa 1894 which coincided with two sons reaching adulthood and being listed in the town directory. Their address for what is believed to be the same house was 164 Warren St. and both parties were listed separately in the town directory for a number of years.

The final living occupant of the house was the Codman’s son, James M. Codman Jr., a lawyer who never married and lived alone in the house. When he died in 1925, his sister, Cora Codman Ely who was living right next door at 130 Warren St., inherited the house. She had it torn down and a new one constructed in 1928 which was subsequently readdressed as 235 Sargent Rd. and still stands.

From Random Recollections, Volume One by Cora Codman Wolcott

Looking from Cottage St., still standing
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Still standing.
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Arthur Williams House, still standing.
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The best guess is that this was previously the house of A. C. Wheelwright located near today’s Hillside Rd. off Warren St. Charles Eliot was a rising star and partner in the landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, then known as Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot. He died at the age of 37.
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No longer standing.
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