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Put On Your Walking Shoes & Step Into the Past:
Spring Walking Tours
The Beaconsfield Terraces:
"An Experiment in Domestic Economy" When: Sunday, May 4, 2025; 10 am - 11 am Meet: Star Market, 1717 Beacon Street, Brookline Led by: Ken Liss of the Brookline Historical Society Distance: 1 mile Register: https://bit.ly/beaconsfield05042025 ![]() Learn more about the Beaconsfield Terraces in this one-hour walking tour led by Brookline Historical Society president Ken Liss. Blake Park: History of a Neighborhood Led by: Ken Liss of the Brookline Historical Society Date: Sunday, May 18, 2025; 2 pm - 3:30 pm Meet: Brookline High School, 115 Greenough Street Distance: About one mile Register: https://bit.ly/blakepark05182025
In 1880, banker Arthur Welland Blake engaged Frederick Law Olmsted to draw plans for the subdivision into roads and lots of the Blake family estate on the lower part of Brookline's Aspinwall Hill. Olmsted's plans were never executed, and the estate remained something of an anomaly; a large tract of open land renowned for its landscaping in the heart of a community rapidly developing as a "streetcar suburb". Join Ken Liss from the Brookline Historical Society to learn how the neighborhood of "Blake Park" finally emerged — despite failed plans, untimely deaths, and financial scandal — four decades after it was first conceived.
The Early Development & Growth of Jewish Brookline Led by: Ken Liss of the Brookline Historical Society Date: Sunday, May 25, 2025; 2 pm - 3:30 pm Meet: Trader Joes, Coolidge Corner, 1317 Beacon Street Distance: About 1.5 miles Register: https://bit.ly/blakepark05182025 ![]() President Ken Liss Blogs on Brookline Past & Present
The Pierce School the Municipal Triangle, Part 1 The map below shows the triangle formed by Harvard Street, Washington Street, and School Street in Brookline Village. It is the location of the Town Hall, the Public Library, the Health Department, and -- for 170 years -- a succession of buildings of the John Pierce School. The northern part of the triangle was, from 1974 to last year, the location of the fifth building to carry the name Pierce School. It was ... |