Looking north toward Beacon St, passing Park Ave. on the right Right to left: #465 and #471, apartment buildings still stand. Summit Ave. hill visible in the background
[Source: Joel Shield]

Looking northwest from the northeast corner of Brookline. Commonwealth Ave. is on the right with stairs going up to Essex St. on the left. Today, the wall on the right has been removed, the Commonwealth Ave. bridge span lengthened, and the Massachusetts Turnpike now runs alongside the railroad tracks.

From the Boston & Albany Railroad Company photographic collection of Historic New England.
[Source: Historic New England]

Looking southeast from the northeast corner of Brookline. On the right is 145 Essex St., no longer standing.
[Source: Connecticut Digital Archive]

Engine no. 316 heading west as it crosses under the Aspinwall Ave. bridge. In the distance is 232 Aspinwall Ave. and in the foreground is 233 Aspinwall Ave., both still standing. On the right is the start of the side track for freight trains that will unload at destinations in Brookine Village.

Station for the Boston and Albany Railroad and pedestrian crossing; the southern end of Carlton St. is on the left; note same man as in the Longwood Station photo and the other man at the left hand corner of the building

Looking east with the Sears Chapel in the background. This was the initial location of the Longwood station of the Boston and Albany Railroad. Both its small physical size and its location were disliked by local residents. Additionally, the Chapel Station was just a short distance away, at the end of Carlton St., adding another time-sapping stop/start for the steam engines. After contentious town meetings in the early 1890s, it was decided to consolidate the two stations into one at today’s location of the Longwood stop. To facilitate access to the new station Chapel St. was created and the station opened in 1894.

Note same man as in the Chapel Station photo along with another man on the far side.

[Source: Iowa State]

Looking east. Chapel St. is on the left.

This rare photo shows the trolley traveling westward having just passed St. Paul St. on its way to Coolidge Corner. It is approaching the house of Charles Dudley at 60 Longwood Ave. Dudley, who had recently purchased the property, would soon move his house to the west and sell the expanded corner property, vacant in the photo, to Jacob Bates who constructed his house there.

This trolley line would soon be eliminated and the tracks, which only ran on the north side of Longwood Ave., removed.
[Source: Leo Sullivan]

Traveling inbound in the area of Chestnut Hill Ave.

Boylston St. looking west from Hammond St. Louis Henry Graves opened his drug store at 1186 Boylston St. circa 1907 after working at the Young and Brown drug store in Coolidge Corner. He sold the business circa 1924.

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Washington St. heading toward Rt. 9 and Boston. This is a Type Four car, in use in Boston from 1911-1950. The two brick buildings still stand.

While nominally just a photo of a subway car this photo actually contains a number of interesting details of Village life in the late 1930s. To the right is the front end of what appears to be a 1935 Chevrolet Master Deluxe Coupe. And there are glimpses of the following businesses:

• Earl Colvin, dentist, is the clearest. He was at that location (221 Washington Street) as early as 1922 and as late as 1940. In 1944 he had moved to 1 Harvard Street.
• Moore's, up the street, is Moore's Grille at 6-9 Harvard Square.
• A.J. Grennan, Chiropodist.
• Wolf & Smith, Meats. They are beneath Colvin and the name is only partly visible. They were there as early as the 1920s through at least 1944.
• Elisabeth Cleansing Shop. The name is on the corner above the back of the trolley.
• Daniel Goldberg. His name is on the window next to Grennan, but we don't find him in the city directories.

Corner Cypress and Franklin, demolished 1934. The trolleys ran along Boylston to Cypress
[Source: Joel Shield]

Standing by the garage for the Beaconsfield Terraces complex looking south at 311 and 317 Clark Rd.

(ID) 112
(Slide ID) ?
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]