Built circa 1868 as the house of Jonathan Dean Long and the location of his carpentry business. On the far left is a partial view of #352 followed by #354 and #358/360, all three were demolished shortly after this photo was taken. Photo taken by Marguerite (Long) Goodspeed, Long’s granddaughter.
[Source: Fleming Collection]

Built circa 1868 as the house of Jonathan Dean Long and the location of his carpentry business. Photo by Marguerite (Long) Goodspeed, Long’s granddaughter, taken shortly before it was demolished.
[Source: Fleming Collection]

Standing on Washington St. looking north at the Bethany Building. School St. is to the right. The steeple is in the first of three iterations, it was reduced in size over time. Known as the “Bethany Building”, the church was constructed in 1844 as the first church in Brookline of the newly-organized Harvard Congregational Society. The building was sold in 1873 as the Society prepared to move to a larger structure at the corner of Harvard St. and Marion St. After a brief stint as a Methodist church followed by several additional changes of ownership, the building was acquired in 1887 by the Bethany Sunday School Association which held it for the next twenty years. The building was torn down in 1928.

The horse-drawn car is being pulled on rails which were first laid in 1859 and has reached its final stop at Washington and School streets. At these final stops the horse(s) would be unhitched and attached to the other end of the car and the route retraced. This car #7 is also seen in another Village photo, that one dated 1873.
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Washington St. runs left to lower right, School St. enters on the right.

Known as the “Bethany Building”, the church was constructed in 1844 as the first church in Brookline of the newly-organized Harvard Congregational Society. The building was sold in 1873 as the Society prepared to move to a larger structure at the corner of Harvard St. and Marion St. After a brief stint as a Methodist church followed by several additional changes of ownership, the building was acquired in 1887 by the Bethany Sunday School Association which held it for the next twenty years. The building was torn down in 1928.

Standing on Cypress St. looking northeast at the Bethany Building. Washington St. crosses from left to right. Foreground, right: one-story store fronts at 4 Cypress Ave., still standing. Background, right: 115 School St., no longer standing.

Known as the “Bethany Building”, the church was constructed in 1844 as the first church in Brookline of the newly-organized Harvard Congregational Society. The building was sold in 1873 as the Society prepared to move to a larger structure at the corner of Harvard St. and Marion St. After a brief stint as a Methodist church followed by several additional changes of ownership, the building was acquired in 1887 by the Bethany Sunday School Association which held it for the next twenty years. The building was torn down in 1928.
[Source: Olmsted]

Washington St. at the junction with Cypress St., School St. to the right. This former church recently ceased its long-time function as the Bethany Sunday School and subsequently

Known as the “Bethany Building”, the church was constructed in 1844 as the first church in Brookline of the newly-organized Harvard Congregational Society. The building was sold in 1873 as the Society prepared to move to a larger structure at the corner of Harvard St. and Marion St. After a brief stint as a Methodist church followed by several additional changes of ownership, the building was acquired in 1887 by the Bethany Sunday School Association which held it for the next twenty years. It saw occasional use in 1917/1918 for the in-season sales of locally-grown farm produce at the Brookline Community Market, before being sold in 1919.The building was torn down in 1928.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking northeast from Washington St. Foreground left: the curve of Prospect St. preceding the First Presbyterian Church, built in 1897, no longer standing. Rear, left: The large brick apartment building at 152-158 Harvard St., built circa 1900. Rear, left of center: The steeple of the Harvard Congregational Church with the cupola of the Pierce Buiding in Coolidge Corner just visible to its immediate left. Center: white apartment buildings sandwiched between Aspinwall Ave. and Homer St. Foreground, right: St. Mary's of the Assumption Church. The steeple is on Harvard St.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking south on Harvard St. from Webster Place.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

13-15 Harvard St, corner, Webster Pl. The Spring Sale sign displays the dates April 20-25 which, because of blue-law-mandated Sunday closings, likely means those dates correspond to Monday-Saturday, which then matches with the year 1914.

13-15 Harvard St, corner, Webster Pl. The Spring Sale sign displays the dates April 20-25 which, because of blue-law-mandated Sunday closings, likely means those dates correspond to Monday-Saturday, which then matches with the year 1914.

Photo shows the western side of Harvard St. immediately north of fork with Washington St. Church is at the corner of Pierce St. St. Mary's Church in the distance on the right.

Western side of Harvard St. just north of fork with Washington St. Church is at the corner of Pierce St. #14 Harvard St. just visible to the left.

One of a series of four photos taken from the top of the third Town Hall. Harvard St. goes from left to right. In the upper right is Boston's Parker Hill and, at its foot, the long row of brick apartments along Huntington Ave. Center right is the corner of the National Bank building in Harvard Square.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Foreground, left to right, all on Prospect St:
:::The southeast corner of the police station and courthouse
:::The old 1844 town hall, now the police station
:::The southwest corner of the old Pierce Grammar School, built in 1855, sections of which remain as part of the current Pierce Historical Building

Center, left to right:
::: Washington St. looking north
::: South side of the library
::: The construction of the 1901 replacement Pierce Grammar School being built facing School St. on the site of the old 1856 high school
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#14 Harvard St. is to the left. Pierce St. to the right. In early 1908, the Baptist church moved to a new building at Beacon and Park. The Presbyterian Church then relocated from its Prospect St. location to the old Baptist Church building in early 1910.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

House of Rufus Candage, no longer standing. To the right is 32 Kent, still standing.
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The house was built in 1837 on what is now Kent Street. From the 1860s until its demolition in 1902, it was the home to generations of the Phillips family and the doyenne of the family, Charlotte Foxcroft Phillips. Long time next-door neighbors were the Twichells. George Pierce Twichell boarded at the Phillips house while he was a student circa 1880 and later married Charlotte’s daughter, Charlotte Heywood Phillips. The date of this photo is undetermined and there are no known family configurations that match the people in the photo.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

The best guess is that this was previously the house of A. C. Wheelwright located near today’s Hillside Rd. off Warren St. Charles Eliot was a rising star and partner in the landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, then known as Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot. He died at the age of 37.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]