Photo Collection
Brookline Historical Society
Photo Collection

Fire Station B (Future Station 2), 342 Washington St.
This image is dated after the 1913 demolition of the Kingman house to the left and before the present-day addition that was present in 1927.

(ID) 023
(Slide ID) P-24-23
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
Guild Building, Brookline Village, Fall 1912
This is one of several photos taken within minutes of each other.

(ID) 069
(Slide ID) P 5-18
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
Washington St., Brookline Village, circa 1912
From left to right:
  • #21 Boylston St.: John H. Shea, Horse shoer, maintained his business there until 1913. In a 1909 photo there was a large sign hanging out front which is no longer visible.
  • #164 (aka 166) Washington St. (corner of the Guild Building), first floor: Thomas H. McMahon, Grocer. In 1898, he took over the existing business in which he had been a clerk and maintained it until 1919 when the building was sold to and replaced by the Brookline Bank.
  • #166 Washington St.: The Brookline Print. Visible on the upper left of the building are the names of Wallace B. Conant and Carl A. Smith. Smith joined Conant’s business in 1909 and is no longer listed with the business after 1911.
  • #166 Washington St.: Forster Bros., Upholsterers. Visible on the far upper left of the building is the sign for “Upholsterers”. The brothers were there from 1908 - 1917
  • 188 Washington St., C. H. Russell Co., Groceries
  • 192 Washington St., Thomas Mahon and Sons, Plumbers
  • 194 Washington St., Dominick Flatley, Tailor
  • 198 Washington St., Newton Farm Provisions
  • 200 Washington St., Hand Bros., Painters


(ID) 070
(Slide ID) P 6-2
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
Brookline Village, Fall 1912
Boylston St. looking west is on the left, Washington St. is on the right viewed from the Village Square. This is one of several photos taken within minutes of each other. The building at 9-11 Boylston has been removed and the south side of the Guild Building is about to be removed to accommodate the widening of Boylston St.
On Washington St. from left to right:
  • The Guild Building
  • 180 Washington St., Abraham Aselovitz, Tailor
  • 188 Washington St., C. H. Russell Co., Groceries
  • 192 Washington St., Thomas Mahon and Sons, Plumbers
  • 194 Washington St., Dominick Flatley, Tailor
  • 198 Washington St., Newton Farm Provisions
  • 200 Washington St., Hand Bros., Painters
  • 204 Washington St., E. A. Robart and Sons, Painters. The building still stands.
  • 216 Washington St., Kenrick Bros., Plumbers


(ID) 072
(Slide ID) P 2-16
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
Brookline Village, Fall 1912
Looking west on Boylston St. from the Village Square. This is one of several photos taken within minutes of each other. The building at 9-11 Boylston that adjoined the Guild Building has been removed and the south side of the Guild Building is about to be shaved off to accommodate the widening of Boylston St. On the right side of Boylston St., several apartment buildings are in the process of being moved back and are visibly ajar. Houses approved in May 1912 for relocation were numbers 75, 91, 95, 99, 107, 109 Boylston St.

(ID) 074
(Slide ID) P 5-15
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
New Police Wagon, August 19, 1929
Shown in front of the station at 339 Washington St. McNear body on a Buick chasis. A similar photo appeared on page four of the September 12, 1929 issue of The Chronicle.

(ID) 025
(Slide ID) 80-96
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
Town Hall, 1919


(ID) 109
(Slide ID) P-24-1
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
Waverly St.
Looking northwest on Waverly St. On the left are #28 and #34 Emerson St. across from Emerson Park. On the corner at the right is 25 Waverly St.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
Deacon Timothy Corey House, 808 Washington St.
Unidentified House
From the estate of Dorothy Wadman, labeled as a house in Brookline
Unidentified Park View 1
From the estate of Dorothy Wadman (right), labeled as a park in Brookline
Unidentified Park View 2
From the estate of Dorothy Wadman (right), labeled as a park in Brookline
Unidentified Street
From the estate of Dorothy Wadman, labeled as a street in Brookline
House of William Craft, Boston
Located near Brookline Village just over the border on today's Huntington Ave., near Kempton St.
Unknown location, funeral attendees, 1892
House, Roxbury
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:1831g283m
Currently unidentified. A new development possibly next to the old Babcock Pond?
Old Davis House, Roxbury
Location Unknown
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Poster Against Saloons in Massachusetts
"Stroke a blow at Saloon" it reads, in reference to an upcoming vote on April 22, 1889.
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