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Put On Your Walking Shoes & Step Into the Past:
Fall Walking Tours Brookline Village Walking Tour When: Sunday, October 1, 2023, 10:00am -11:30am Meet: The Village Works, 202 Washington Street, Brookline Led by: Ken Liss of the Brookline Historical Society Distance: 1 1/2 mile Register: brooklinevillage10-1-2023.eventbrite.com
The tour will begin and end at The Village Works, 202 Washington Street, in a 19th century building that began as the shop of a local house painter and has been a fish market, a hardware store, and a series of restaurants (including The Village Coach House and Davios).
Highlights will include:
The Beaconsfield Terraces: "An Experiment in Domestic Economy" When: Sunday, October 8, 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am Meet: Star Market, 1717 Beacon Street, Brookline Led by: Ken Liss of the Brookline Historical Society Distance: 1 mile Register: beaconsfield10-8-2023.eventbrite.com ![]() 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, October 15, 2023, 2:00pm - 3:30pm Meet: Brookline High School, 115 Greenough Street Distance: About one mile Register: blakepark10-15-2023.eventbrite.com
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: October 22, 2023, 11:00am - 12:30pm Meet: Trader Joes, Coolidge Corner, 1317 Beacon Street Distance: About 1.5 miles Register: jewishbrookline10-22-2023.eventbrite.com ![]() President Ken Liss Blogs on Brookline Past & Present
Labor Day in Brookline, 1887-1888 Labor Day became a Federal holiday in 1894 when President Grover Cleveland signed a bill making it official, but Brookline had been celebrating since 1887 when Massachusetts was one of four states to make it a state holiday. (That was one year after Oregon became the first.)...
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Virtual Walking Tour
Brookline's rich history can now take a virtual walking tour of the town via our new online map. The map presents pictures and descriptions (with links for more information) about homes, commercial buildings, churches and synagogues, schools, neighborhoods, parks, and other parts of the town.
Most of the sites marked on the map are in Brookline Village, Coolidge Corner, Longwood, and the area around the First Parish Church and the old Village Green. Other sites and other areas of Brookline are being added, helping to bring to light stories behind familiar and not-so-familiar places in town. |