This is the only known photo of the school.

(ID) 119
(Slide ID) P-25-11
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

Walter Ave. in neighborhood formerly known as "The Farm" that was later razed and replace by the Brook House development.

Page 10, plate 7284. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking west toward Allerton St. from the northwest corner with Pond Ave. On the right, the side of 58 Allerton St., later the house of famed singer Roland Hayes, is viewed. On the left is the rear of 4 Hawthorn Rd., both houses are still standing.

The gardens were part of a town-wide program to enhance the learning experience of students. As with the Lincoln and Sewall schools, the gardens were planted on land loaned by private landowners. In this case, the land was loaned by the Brookline Riverdale Land Association.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking toward Pond Ave., Allerton St. is on the right. The gardens were part of a town-wide program to enhance the learning experience of students. As with the Lincoln and Sewall schools, the gardens were planted on land loaned by private landowners. In this case, the land was loaned by the Brookline Riverdale Land Association.

In a serendipitous coincidence, the photo includes the only known view of a street-sprinkling wagon being filled with water. The cart was operated by Chester W. Reed who had a contract with the town to water the dirt roads. The water-feeder pole can be viewed by the middle section of the wagon.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

The Thomas Parsons School garden project involved the third grade students who were supervised by the school principal, Minnie P. Massé. This is one of three experimental school garden projects initiated by the Brookline Education Society in 1903. The gardens were part of a town-wide program to enhance the learning experience of students. As with the Lincoln and Sewall schools, the gardens were planted on land loaned by private landowners. In this case, the land was loaned by the Brookline Riverdale Land Association.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

This is the only known photo of the school.

(ID) 117
(Slide ID) ?
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

The students are arrayed in front of the original Pierce Grammar School. There are a number of older-appearing students so it can be assumed that the photo includes students from the high school that was just next door.

There were two Pierce School buildings, Grammar and Primary. This is the original Grammar building, built in 1855 on the west side of Prospect St. This building was incorporated into the 1904 replacement building for the Primary School, still standing, and its right side can be viewed there today.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]

There were two Pierce buildings, Grammar and Primary. A new, larger, Pierce Grammar School had recently opened on School St. in 1901. This building, the new Primary School building, was opened in 1904 as part of an expansion of both schools. It incorporated parts of the old Pierce Grammar School, accessible today around the right side, and still stands today as the Pierce Historical Building.

(ID) 028
(Slide ID) P 25-19
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

Opened in 1901 as a replacement for the much smaller school located behind it on Prospect St. No longer standing.

This photograph was annotated with a date of 1905 and the names Lillian Scheinfein and “Teacher – Lunt”. No Lillian Scheinfein or a Lunt could be identified in that era or with the Pierce schools.

Opened in 1901 as a replacement for the much smaller school located behind it on Prospect St. No longer standing.

Top of Summit Ave. near Brighton border

Page 14, plate 7288. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Page 15, plate 7289. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Page 16, plate 7290. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Page 17, plate 7291. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Page 18, plate 7292. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Page 19, plate 7293. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Identities inscribed with the photo were: Front Row

2. Fay -- from Cuba
3. Irene Taylor
4. Elizabeth Walsh
6. Edith C Robinson
7. Ruth Litchfield
8. Sara Emerson Snell
9. Christine Merrick Ayars
10. Helen Margaret Leard
11. Lillian Agnes Meany
13. Viola Bassett Handy

Row Two

1. Katherine G Sullivan
2. Frances A Jefferson
5. Ada E. Chevalier (teacher)
6. Mary McSkimmon (principal)
7. Maria F. Gardner (teacher)
9. Marie Katherine Kelly
10. Helena von Ladau
11. Frances Converse McCormick

Row Three

1. Vienna Francis Edwards
3. Sarah M I Messer
4. Annie ???
10. Lillian Woodard
11. Alice M. Potter
13. Katharine Riley
14. Esther A Richardson
15. Emily Grace Smith (?)
16. Gladys Florence Creaser
17. Donna M. George
19. Louise Cheney

Row Four

4. Walter Kelley
7. Harry H. Denning
10. Karl Leavitt Thielscher
12. George Francis McGillen
13. Philip Ignatius Johnson
14. Robert J. Rowe
16. ? Dillingham

Row Five

1. Arvin Edward Case
2. Elwood B. Merritt
3. Philip Leard
4. William Walizer
5. Antonio Nesmith Guimaraes
6. Edward Estey Mason
7. Philip R. G. Nordell
8. Elliott W Hirshberg
9. Edward A Manning

Not identified above but listed in the June 27th, 1908 issue of The Chronicle as receiving diplomas were: Edith M Barrett, Mabel Louise Blair, Annah May Colby, Etta May Coyne, Annie R. Cross, Elsie May Danckert, James Walter Dane, Katherine Margaret Duffy, George C Dunlevy, Edward M Emery, Charles Ultin Farley, Chester R. Fowler, Pae Fowler, Florence A Gottschalk, Manon Lloyd Grant, Elmer Philip Hatch, Florence May Hunter, Edward Charles Kelley, Adelbert Libby Kilmer, E Lewis Little, Agnes J Lynch, Grace Edith Mosher, Owen Leo McGillen, Emma Jane McNeilly, Philip E Nason, Frank Sewall Owen, Everett D Phillips, Vera Belle Purdy, Joseph A Richardson, William James Rix, May Watson Shillady, Jane E Smith, Francis P Wall, Elizabeth Margaret Walsh, Harold M Watson