Looking at the north side of Boylston St. during the widening of Boylston St. The presence of what appear to be "Y" connectors in the tracks is not understood. From left to right:

• 145 Boylston St., partial view. This building has an ambiguous identity. There had been a larger rooming house there that was no longer listed after 1901. This smaller structure appears in subsequent atlases but there are no records of it in town directories and, notably, no record of the grocery store that is evident. It needed to move back for the widening of Boylston St. and it appears that it was torn down instead, possibly due to the lack of available expansion room - it was right up against a house behind it on Kerrigan Place.
• Entrance to Kerrigan Place
• 137/135 Boylston St. The house has already been moved back from the street and a wooden walkway is visible over the gap.
• 133 Boylston St. Note the open basement walls - the house is already being prepared for a move back to accommodate the upcoming widening of Boylston St. There is a woman in the doorway – there were two women listed at the address in 1912: Catherine Keenan, 46, and Alice Dawson, 57.

(ID) 002
(Slide ID) P-5-10

William Robert Murphy Collection