Looking north from the rotary at the intersection of Williston, Evans, and Downing roads. In the foreground is Penny, unidentified. From left to right:

• 14 Orchard Rd., rear
• 9 Downing Rd.
• Orchard Rd. intersection
• 25 Downing Rd.

From the photo album of Edith Draper Steinmetz, 31 Evans Rd.
[Source: Daniel Coston Collection]

Viewed are Terry, unidentified, and Spencer Steinmetz who lived at 31 Evans Rd. just off screen to the right. Looking from right to left are the rears of 25, 15, and 11 Evans Rd.

From the photo album of Edith Draper Steinmetz, 31 Evans Rd.
[Source: Daniel Coston Collection]

Emma Roland Gilliams Steinmetz holding Pete the dog outside her home at 31 Evans Rd.

From the photo album of Edith Draper Steinmetz, 31 Evans Rd.
[Source: Daniel Coston Collection]

Looking northeast on Downing Rd. toward Washington St. From left to right:

• 9 Downing Rd.
• Orchard Rd. intersection
• 25 Downing Rd.
• 797 Washington St. opposite Downing Rd.

From the photo album of Edith Draper Steinmetz, 31 Evans Rd.
[Source: Daniel Coston Collection]

[Source: Historic New England]

[Source: Historic New England]

Standing at 197/199 Longwood Ave. looking east at the old wooden bridge at Chapel St. The bridge is closed which most likely indicates that construction of the new stone bridge is about to commence. Note two people seated in the hill in the distance on the right.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking east at the old wooden bridge at Chapel St. The bridge is closed which most likely indicates that construction of the new stone bridge is about to commence. .
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking east on Hyslop Rd. from the Ruhl house at 37 Hyslop Rd. 29 Hyslop Rd. is under construction. The Ruhls moved to their new house, then oddly addressed as 88 Druce St., in 1905. The three younger daughters of Edward and Mary Ruhl - Elsie, Louise, and Mary - are standing across the street.

Looking west on Hyslop Rd. at the corner with Druce St. Most likely shown are Edward Ruhl, one of his daughters, and his son, In the distance on the right is 70 Hyslop Rd. and, in the middle, 125 Holland Rd., both still standing.

Looking west on Hyslop Rd. Most likely shown are Edward Ruhl and two of his daughters at the corner with Druce St. The houses in the photo are no longer standing.

Viewed from the side of 172 Buckminster Rd. with 169 Buckminster Rd. in the background. Mary and Edward Ruhl and their five children moved from Boston and began leasing this house in late 1901. Probably shown here, from left to right, are the three youngest daughters: Elsie, Louise, and Mary.

Mary and Edward Ruhl and their five children moved from Boston and began leasing this house in late 1901. Ruhl, a German emigrant, was Secretary of the newly-formed conglomeration of brewers known as the Massachusetts Breweries Company. The Ruhls would purchase a nearby home in 1905.

Looking at 169 Buckminster Rd. from the front lawn of 172 Buckminster Rd., the home of Edward Ruhl, both houses are still standing. The girl is unidentified.

The Brookline Friendly Society was a health and human services agency located at 10 Walter Ave. in the area known as The Farm.

Identities inscribed with the photo were: Front Row

2. Fay -- from Cuba
3. Irene Taylor
4. Elizabeth Walsh
6. Edith C Robinson
7. Ruth Litchfield
8. Sara Emerson Snell
9. Christine Merrick Ayars
10. Helen Margaret Leard
11. Lillian Agnes Meany
13. Viola Bassett Handy

Row Two

1. Katherine G Sullivan
2. Frances A Jefferson
5. Ada E. Chevalier (teacher)
6. Mary McSkimmon (principal)
7. Maria F. Gardner (teacher)
9. Marie Katherine Kelly
10. Helena von Ladau
11. Frances Converse McCormick

Row Three

1. Vienna Francis Edwards
3. Sarah M I Messer
4. Annie ???
10. Lillian Woodard
11. Alice M. Potter
13. Katharine Riley
14. Esther A Richardson
15. Emily Grace Smith (?)
16. Gladys Florence Creaser
17. Donna M. George
19. Louise Cheney

Row Four

4. Walter Kelley
7. Harry H. Denning
10. Karl Leavitt Thielscher
12. George Francis McGillen
13. Philip Ignatius Johnson
14. Robert J. Rowe
16. ? Dillingham

Row Five

1. Arvin Edward Case
2. Elwood B. Merritt
3. Philip Leard
4. William Walizer
5. Antonio Nesmith Guimaraes
6. Edward Estey Mason
7. Philip R. G. Nordell
8. Elliott W Hirshberg
9. Edward A Manning

Not identified above but listed in the June 27th, 1908 issue of The Chronicle as receiving diplomas were: Edith M Barrett, Mabel Louise Blair, Annah May Colby, Etta May Coyne, Annie R. Cross, Elsie May Danckert, James Walter Dane, Katherine Margaret Duffy, George C Dunlevy, Edward M Emery, Charles Ultin Farley, Chester R. Fowler, Pae Fowler, Florence A Gottschalk, Manon Lloyd Grant, Elmer Philip Hatch, Florence May Hunter, Edward Charles Kelley, Adelbert Libby Kilmer, E Lewis Little, Agnes J Lynch, Grace Edith Mosher, Owen Leo McGillen, Emma Jane McNeilly, Philip E Nason, Frank Sewall Owen, Everett D Phillips, Vera Belle Purdy, Joseph A Richardson, William James Rix, May Watson Shillady, Jane E Smith, Francis P Wall, Elizabeth Margaret Walsh, Harold M Watson

This photograph was annotated with a date of 1905 and the names Lillian Scheinfein and “Teacher – Lunt”. No Lillian Scheinfein or a Lunt could be identified in that era or with the Pierce schools.

Northeast Corner Sewall Ave and Stearns Rd.

Built in 1903 by Henry Whitney. Initially a luxurious 200-room apartment hotel, it apparently fell on hard times by the 1950s and was demolished after a fire in 1966.