Located just south of Boylston St., no longer standing.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Built in 1840, still standing.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking from Cottage St., still standing
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Arthur Williams House, still standing.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

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.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Still standing, built 1732 by Nehemiah Davis
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Inscription on back of photo: "R + A.D.W taken to see her here. Taken before her death. Given to E.W.W. by E.G.M.”

Julia Goddard House, still standing,
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married, 1840, John Heath Goddard (jr.); parents: Rev. Bennet Tyler and Esther Stow Stone; son, John: 1841 - 1878;

Inscription on back: “Aunt Katie Tyler and Uncle Doctor. John Tyler Goddard and his mother Katherine Tyler Goddard, widow of John Goddard who lived 1813 – 1841.” Her husband died shortly after their marriage. Her father, Rev. Bennet Tyler, was president of Dartmouth University.

The house is still standing today. The initial version of the house was built in 1806 by Nathaniel Ingersoll, one of several wealthy international-trade merchants who had houses in the immediate area. John Lowell Gardner purchased the house in 1842 and a number of additions were made over the years.

In April 1860, Gardner’s son, John Lowell Gardner II, married the now well-known Isabella Stewart Gardner and they immediately moved into the house. This is one of two photos of family members that appear to have been taken at about the same time. For this photo the hosting nga.gov web site speculates that, from left to right, appear (ages and their relationship to John Lowell Gardner, Sr. are noted):

• John Lowell Gardner, Jr., son (26)
• Catherine Peabody Gardner, wife (56)
• Joseph Peabody Gardner, (36)
• Harriet Amory Gardner, wife of son, Joseph
• Isabella Stewart Gardner, wife of son, John (24)
• John Lowell Gardner, Sr. (60)

[Source: National Gallery of Art]

The house is still standing today. The initial version of the house was built in 1806 by Nathaniel Ingersoll, one of several wealthy international-trade merchants who had houses in the immediate area. John Lowell Gardner purchased the house in 1842 and a number of additions were made over the years.

In April 1860, Gardner’s son, John Lowell Gardner II, married the now well-known Isabella Stewart Gardner and they immediately moved into the house. This is one of two photos of family members that appear to have been taken at about the same time. The other photo featured two adult children, their spouses, and the elder Gardner parents. This photo features women and children. The only person with a probable identification is Catherine Peabody Gardner, the family matriarch, seated on the left.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Still standing today, largely the same, on Green Hill behind Julie Gardner's house. Shown is left side of house by driveway. Purchased in 1842 by John Lowell Gardner, father-in-law of Isabella Stewart Gardner.

Still standing today, largely the same, on Green Hill behind Julie Gardner's house. Shown is rear and rear-left side of house. Purchased in 1842 by John Lowell Gardner, father-in-law of Isabella Stewart Gardner.

Charles Sprague Sargent is in the center

At today's Sargent Rd.

The Sargent estate was built by Ignatius Sargent and taken over by his son, Charles Sprague Sargent

Still standing on Boylston St. near Chestnut Hill Ave. Built by Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, developer of the smallpox vacine.

Owned by famed architect Henry Hobson Richardson who designed Trinity Church and many similar brownstone buildings of the Romanesque style.

Note woman drawing well water. Still standing, with addition. Built in 1827 by merchant captain Isaac Cook for his son, Thomas but Thomas died before moving in. The elder Cooks then moved in and spent the rest of their lives there. Isaac built a similar cottage in 1829 for his son Isaac Jr. which is still standing across the street at the corner of Cottage St. & Godard Ave.