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Chestnut Hill High Service Pumping Station, 1898
Looking from Beacon St. toward Brookline. The house and barn of Michael McGrady on Reservoir Lane are visible on the left.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
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Brookline Ave., 1928
Looking northeast on Brookline Ave. from Pearl St. Just visible through the fence on the left is the building on the corner with Aspinwall Ave. Photo by Henry A. Varney, Brookline town engineer.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
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The Country Club
Looking at the rear of 209 Newton St. and its outbuildings center photo in the distance. House on the hill roughly near today’s Dexter School is viewed in the distance on the right.
[Source: Historic New England]
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Cleveland Circle Southwest, 1941
Looking southeast from the railroad tracks in the vicinity of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum. From left to right at the base of the hill in the distance is Eliot St.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
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Beacon St. at Tappan St., 1896
Looking west
[Source: Northeastern University]
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Aerial View, circa 1958
North of Jamaica Pond
FayFoto ID: A91-0915F; URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20395792
[Source: Northeastern University]
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Green Hill, Aerial View, circa 1958
Looking east on Boylston St. from the corner of Cypress St. (photo, lower left)
FayFoto ID: A91-0915F; URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20395790
[Source: Northeastern University]
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Construction of the Cypress St. Bridge, 1891
In the rear left is the house at 86 Cypress St. at the corner of Davis Ave. In the rear right is the factory building of the E. S. Ritchie Co. On top the bridge barely discernible is the chimney stack of a steam engine being used to mix the cement.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
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Brookline Bird Club Exhibition, 1914
This is an exhibition of the Brookline Bird Club and the town forestry department held at the library in April 1914.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
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43 Upland Rd.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Lounge at the Beaconsfield Hotel, 1912
Built in 1903 by Henry Whitney. Initially a luxurious 200-room apartment hotel at 1731 Beacon St., it apparently fell on hard times by the 1950s and was demolished after a fire in 1966. The photo is from a postcard mailed to a friend by Peter F. Cormier, a clerk at the hotel.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Clubhouse, Chestnut Hill Country Club
Addressed as number 1023 on Boylston St. which runs right behind the clubhouse.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Clubhouse, Chestnut Hill Country Club
Addressed as number 1023 on Boylston St. which runs right behind the clubhouse.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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112 High St.
The house is sandwiched between two side roads: Edgehill Rd. on the right and Cumberland Ave. on the left. The house and the stone wall shown are still standing
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Home of Amos Lawrence, Prescott St.
Looking east on Ivy St. to the right.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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92-100 Washington St.
The final building at 104-108 Washington St. has recently been demolished and replaced by a gas station (off photo)
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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55 Lee St.
Looking west across the Brookline reservoir (drained)
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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45 Warren St., 1925
Looking northeast at the Brookline reservoir (drained) gatehouse. On the right is 45 Warren St.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Amory Park and Cottage Farm
Looking north across Amory Park from 1236 Beacon St. (no longer standing). Background left, the rear of 200 Ivy St. is viewed and, on the right, 21 Mason St.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Town Meeting, March 19, 1935
Held in town hall. The large posters illustrate the sites of the various proposals being voting on.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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