From Postcard

From Gleason's Magazine.

[Far right to center] Boston's Huntington Ave. (then called Tremont St.); behind it, also running right to left, is Brookline Ave.
[Center-left towards upper left]] Lower Washington St. heads toward Brookline Village. Housing is dense on the north side; the area on the south side known as The Farm, site of today's Brook House, is still predominantly open land.
[Center-left rear] the massive former Town Hall
[Center-right rear] Summit Ave. can be seen going to the top of Corey Hill

Looking northwest from Parker Hill.
[Foreground, large angled road] Today's South Huntington Ave. (Boston)
[Center photo from left to right] Boston's Huntington Ave. (formerly Tremont St.) transitioning to Brookline's Washington St.
[Center photo, right side] Houses on Boston's Huntington Ave. (formerly Tremont St.) and Downer St.
[ Center photo, left side] Brookline’s Pond Ave. enters lower Washington St

Standing in Brookline on Pond Ave. looking at houses on the northern side of Boston's Huntington Ave (then-named Tremont St.). Transition to Brookline's Washington St. off-photo left. Entrance to Boston's Downer St. is photo center left. Muddy River culvert foreground right.

The house at 624 Brookline Ave., roughly across from the Robert Winthrop School and initially numbered 39 then 103 and finally 624, was essentially the home of members of the Bingham family for its entire existence. The Binghams, Irish immigrants, moved in circa 1880. By the 1940s two unmarried children remained. John Bingham died in 1958 and Elizabeth Esther Bingham died in 1959 at the age of eighty.

The apartment buildings on the Riverway in Boston can be viewed in the rear. The town ordered the demolition of the house in 1961 and, in the coming decade, would demolish the entire neighborhood known as “The Marsh”.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

View From Parker Hill. Brookline Hills in the background. At the extreme left in the center of the photo are the two matching apartment buildings that are located at 165 Pond Ave. (front) and 19 Villa Lane (rear). The large black gasometer tank of the Boston Consolidated Gas Co. is in the middle left and the small white house in front of it is located at 19 Villa Lane.

Leverett Pond. Rear, right to left: Washington St. goes from the Boston border over the visible stone bridge toward Brookline Village. Left: 7 houses along Pond Ave bisected by Morss Ave., all replaced by the Brook House apartments.
[Source: Smithsonian]

Looking south. Park Avenue Terrace on the left. Pearl St. on the right in the foreground. Washington St. is visible in the far distance.
[Source: Olmsted]

Still standing
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

From left to right:

• Station St.
• Train station and tracks, looking east, of the Boston and Albany Railroad now used by the MBTA “D” line
• Open land of the railroad. Behind the horse-drawn cart are houses and businesses on the north side of Pearl St. The sign for Brookline Coal at 40 Pearl St. is visible.
• Automobile on the railroad property. Directly in front of the car and across the street is the house at 31/33 Pearl St.
• Rear of buildings on Fay Place

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

The north side of Pearl St. abuts the railroad tracks, today's "D" line, on the east end of Brookline Village.
[Source: Leo Sullivan]

From left to right: 54/56 Pearl St., 60 Pearl St., Bear’s Service at 65 Pearl St.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Standing on Brookline Ave. looking west on Pearl St. The Winthrop School is just off screen on the right. From left to right:

• 93 Pearl St.
• 89 Pearl St.
• 85 Pearl St.
• 81 Pearl St., on the corner
• Pearl St., takes a left turn
• 84 Pearl St. across the street

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

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]

Pearl St. is foreground right followed by #615 Brookline Ave. Photo by Henry A. Varney, Brookline town engineer.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking northeast. At the immediate left is 615 Brookline Ave. at the corner of Pearl St. Robert Winthrop School is on the other side of Pearl St.

Rear of 612 (fmr 107) and 618 (fmr 105) Brookline Ave., no longer standing. Rear, all still standing, left to right: Dutch House, brick apartment buildings on Aspinwall Ave.
[Source: Olmsted]

Looking south from Pearl St., House on Washington St. is visible in the far distance. Looking from left to right down Brookline Ave.: #628 (fmr 101) , a vacant lot fronted by billboards, #648 - 670 (fmr 77, 75, 71, 65, 59, 55,) a vacant lot fronted by billboards, #682, 684 (fmr 43, 41), continued to Washington St.
[Source: Olmsted]

Just south of the entrance to Pearl St.
[Source: Olmsted]