Brookline Historical Society
Photo Collection

Woolworth's, Brookline Village, circa 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.
Baptist Church, 32 Harvard St.
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.
Baptist Church, Harvard St., 1897
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.
Presbyterian Church (Formerly Baptist), Harvard & Pierce St., 1913
#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]
9, 11 Kent St.
Still standing
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
7, 9, 11 Kent St.
All still standing
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
12 Kent St.
Home of Asa and Lydia Fenn. Operated as a boarding house from the time they arrived circa 1887 until 1899. She continued to run the boarding house after his death in 1891. No longer standing.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
12 Kent St.
Home of Asa and Lydia Fenn. Operated as a boarding house from the time they arrived circa 1887 until 1899. She continued to run the boarding house after his death in 1891. No longer standing.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
20 Kent St.
House of Rufus Candage, no longer standing. To the right is 32 Kent, still standing.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
50 Kent St.
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]
63 Kent St.
Looking east on lower Kent St. at a shed of the Bay State York Co., a heating and refrigeration company whose main location was across the street at 74 Kent St. Station St. enters at the right.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
65 Kent St.
Looking east at lower Kent St. Station St. connects on the right. These buildings were removed circa 1974 as part of the Marsh Urban Renewal Project. [pg. 2, no. 1]
  • On the right is a partial view of a shed of the Bay State York Co., a heating and refrigeration company whose main location was across the street at 74 Kent St.
  • On the right side of the brick building at 65 Kent St. is the Hamilton Printing Co.
  • On the left side of the brick building at 65 Kent St. is the business of Milton Fenwick Reynolds, Carpenter and Builder. Reynolds moved his business here in early 1899. Remarkably, the company still operates today in Medford Massachusetts


From a notebook of property-appraisal photos taken in 1965 and early 1966 for “The Marsh Urban Renewal Project” run by the Brookline Redevelopment Authority. Only a few scattered peripheral structures remain today.
43 Linden St.
Looking west toward Harvard St. The estate of Harrison Fay is on the left, no longer standing.
Thomas Aspinwall Davis House, Linden Park.
Originally overlooking Linden Park from today’s Linden Court, the house was rotated clockwise ninety degrees circa 1905 to its current location of 29 Linden Place.
Thomas Aspinwall Davis House, Linden Park.
Looking east from Harvard St. Originally overlooking Linden Park from today’s Linden Court, the verandas were removed and, circa 1905, the house was rotated ninety degrees clockwise to its current location of 29 Linden Place. On the right, still standing are the “Charles Scudder” house at 13 Linden St. and 15 Linden St. which was squeezed in between numbers 13 and 19 circa 1897.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
Toxteth St. Looking North
Foreground, left: #22 and #26; Foreground, right: #23. Bowker St. on the right
86 Greenough St., November 1915
Looking northeast. Formerly an extension of Gorham Ave.
[Source: Olmsted]
114-98 Brook St., March 1, 1921
All buildings still standing except McDonnell's. Martin F. McDonnell had the grocery store at 110 Brook St. from 1904 - 1921.
[Source: Olmsted]
View of Third Town Hall
Looking at the newly-constructed 1873 Town Hall on Washington St. from Aspinwall Hill. On the far left is the steeple of the Bethany Chapel at the corner of Washington St. and School St.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]
View From Corey Hill
Looking south from Corey Hill. Park st. runs mid-photo from left to right. The newly-constructed 1873 Town Hall on Washington St. is viewed center rear.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]
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