Looking southwest toward Reservoir Rd. from the vicinity of the rear of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum. The house in the center is 171 Crafts Rd. Visible in front of it is a waste weir of the Cochituate Aqueduct which ran along Reservoir Rd. to the Brookline Reservoir on Boylston St. The waste weir is still standing. The aqueduct was not used after 1951.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking southwest from the old Reservoir Lane at the raised aqueduct that runs along Reservoir Rd. The house is 171 Crafts Rd. Visible in front of it is a waste weir of the Cochituate Aqueduct which ran along Reservoir Rd. to the Brookline Reservoir on Boylston St. The waste weir is still standing. The aqueduct was not used after 1951.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking northwest. Looking left to right from mid photo:

• Indistinct views of the rears of 285 and 295 Reservoir Rd.
• 57 Reservoir Lane
• 325 Reservoir Rd. (Newton), the white house next to the pumping station
• 2442 Beacon St., the rear of the pumping station

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking westerly at the rear of houses on Reservoir Rd.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking northeast from Cotswold Rd. 301 Clark Rd. is on the left, #295 on the right, both still standing.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

(ID) 099
(Slide ID) P-34-11
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

(ID) 062
(Slide ID) P 108-B
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

This group, seen here during an outing by the Providence River, met every Sunday in the back room of Warren G. Currier’s drug store in Brookline Village. Most of the men lived close to the store located just north of Davis Ave. on Washington St. This photo appeared on page one of the December 7, 1907 issue of The Brookline Chronicle.

In the back row from left to right:

• Justin Jones, founder and editor of the Boston weekly, the Yankee Blade; he lived on Harrison Place (Kent St.)
• Oliver Cousens, a carpenter whose house and other buildings were on School St.
• Eben Morse, lived in the Village and ran a stable and hackney business there
• Warren G. Currier, owner of the drugstore in Harvard Square where the meetings were held
• Alfred Taylor, a young wool broker who lived in the family house on Harvard St. next to the Baptist Church
• Patrick Dillon, a policeman who lived on Davis Place

In the front row from left to right:

• Joseph Thomas Waterman, a carpenter who lived on Aspinwall Ave. and whose son, Alfred Patterson Waterman, provided the photo to the Chronicle
• Charles Chase, an operator of a delivery service who lived on Washington St. near the library
• Thomas S. Pettingill, sexton of the Baptist Church and town undertaker, who lived on Harvard St. by Aspinwall Ave.
• James H. Boody, a painter who lived in Brookline Village

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking east from today’s Brookline Hills MBTA stop before the erection of the bridge over the tracks on Cypress St. in late 1891. In the center is the factory building of the E. S. Ritchie Co. which still stands today as part of a 2005 condominium project at 110 Cypress St. On the right is an apartment building likely at 124 Cypress St. followed by the rear of apartment buildings on Boylston St.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

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]

Standing on Cypress St. looking toward Washington St. in the distance. On the right is 26 Cypress St. followed by Searle St. and 18/20 Cypress St., all still standing.

(ID) 077
(Slide ID) P 106-J
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

Standing on Cypress St. at Searle Ave. looking at Washington St.

(ID) 022
(Slide ID) P-106-L
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

Looking west from #148. The sign for Walnut Path can be seen in the left foreground followed by the Lincoln School buildings. On the right is the brick Boylston School building (no longer standing) followed by 199-201 Boylston St., still standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

This is a picture of the house before the regrading of Boylston St. Photographer Richard Hills was a jeweler and watchmaker in Boston who later went into business with his brother. Between 1874 and 1876 he produced some of the most important and iconic photographic records of Brookline Village. The pictures were taken as stereoviews but little is currently known about this work.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]

This is a picture of the house after the regrading of Boylston St. Photographer Richard Hills was a jeweler and watchmaker in Boston who later went into business with his brother. Between 1874 and 1876 he produced some of the most important and iconic photographic records of Brookline Village. The pictures were taken as stereoviews but little is currently known about this work.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]

Looking north from the north side of Boylston St. On the left is 135/137 Boylston St. and squeezed right up next to it is #133. On the far right is a partial view of #115. Behind them the railroad tracks can be glimpsed. The large mansard house in the distance is the rear of 50-52 Davis Avenue, still standing.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]

This is the business of Burton W. Neal Sr., carpenter and builder, just west of the Lincoln School, He was succeeded in the business by his namesake son who became a prominent builder and citizen in Brookline.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]

House of Burton W. Neal Sr., carpenter and builder, just west of the Lincoln School, He was succeeded in the business by his namesake son who became a prominent builder and citizen in Brookline. There remains today a similar stone wall just west of the Lincoln School.

From Photographs of Brookline: taken about 1876 / Richard Hills. Call No.: BROOKLINE/Special (CAGE B.R. 974 H6), Brookline Public Library.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Cameron St. circumscribed three sides of a square with the fourth side being Boylston St. This view is on the north segment looking east. All buildings are still standing. On the right they are pumping water out of the basement of 14 Smythe St. In the distance on the left is the building at 48 and 50 Cameron St. and, on the right, the apartment building spanning 47 – 51 Cameron St.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]