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Corner, Sewall Ave. and Charles St.
From left to right:
- Rear, 50 Sewall Ave., behind the Parish House. The building there today has an identical footprint but any connection is not known.
- Second Unitarian Society Parish House, 11 Charles St., built 1916, still standing
- (center rear) 3 Charles St., built circa 1916, , no longer standing
- 64 Sewall Ave., no longer standing
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
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76 and 82 Sewall Ave.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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103 Sewall Ave., 1937
The sign for Sewall Ave. Nursery School is visible. There is no evidence that the school existed outside 1937. Still standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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106 Sewall Ave., 1936
Looking east on Sewall Ave. from the corner of 92 Sewall Ave. The apartment building at 120 Sewall is viewed in the distance. The house was originally owned by several generations of the Stearns family. In the 1910s, it became Fisk Hospital (“For the treatment of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction”) and, in the 1920s, it was an MIT fraternity house for several years. It is no longer standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Colchester St., circa 1910
Looking west from Carlton St. The Sears Chapel is faintly visible in the distance.
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29 Colchester St., 1910
Built in 1903-04 by Edward Boit, and designed by Peabody & Stearns
[Source: Smithsonian]
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Colchester St. Looking West toward Kent St.
In the distance is 312 Kent St., no longer standing.
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Colchester St., circa 1910
Looking west from Hawes St. 312 Kent St., since replaced with a newer house, is seen at the end.
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119 Colchester St., 1888
Formerly numbered 115, home of Harrison Gardner. Kent St. looking north, to the left. House still standing.
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312 Kent St.
Home of Benjamin Keith, demolished in1938.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
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346 Kent St., 1937
No longer standing. Marshall St. viewed in the rear.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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357 Kent St., 1933
The house, no longer standing, was built in 1860 for David Sears III, the son of David Sears who owned much of the Longwood area. It was demolished by 1940 and replaced by today’s Chatham Circle subdivision. Photo by Henry A. Varney, Brookline town engineer.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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60 Beech (formerly Dudley St.) Rd., 1888
House of William H. Lincoln. Kent St. is off-photo to the right.
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Beech Rd.
Looking east from Kent St. In the foreground is the house of William H. Lincoln at 60 Beech Rd. followed by 48 Beech Rd., neither are still standing. The third house, 42 Beech Rd., is still standing.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]
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Beech Rd.
Looking west from Hawes St. #26 Beech Rd. is on the left, still standing.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]
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View of Hawes St.
Looking from the Boston side of the Emerald Necklace at the townhouses at 5-11 Hawes St.
[Source: Olmsted]
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6 Hawes St., November, 1910
Built in 1864 for David Sears; was remodeled and expanded in 1906 by Clarence H. Blackall for Nathaniel Amster, a mining expert
[Source: Smithsonian]
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16 Hawes St., November, 1910
Designed by architects P. B. Howard and Charles E. Patch; built in 1906 for Clara and H. A. Gowing. All houses in the photo still stand. 1090-1100 Beacon St. is in the far distance.
[Source: Smithsonian]
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Hawes St., April 1935
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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10 Hawes Pl., November, 1910
The George Quincy House, built in 1909, on the corner of Hawes Place and Borland Street.
[Source: Smithsonian]
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