Looking southeast from the “D” line tracks at the former Pearl St. extension. In the distance are 85 and 81 Pearl St.

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.

Looking southwest toward Brookline Ave. On the immediate left, 97 Pearl St. has already been razed. A corner of the gas station at the corner of Brookline Ave. and Pearl St. can be glimpsed.

William Gillis was vice president of the Marsh Development Association which sought to privately redevelop the area of The Marsh as a counterpoint to the intention of the Brookline Redevelopment Authority to completely raze and rebuild the entire area.

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.

Looking south at the rear of the Town of Brookline building in the pipe yard from the Brookline Ave. Playground behind the former Robert Winthrop School (note partial view of basketball backboard). On the right, 81 Pearl St. can be glimpsed across the street and on the left, the Citgo station at 615 Brookline Ave. [pg. 13, no. 2]

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.

Looking northeast, the Robert Winthrop School building is just to the right. This building adjoined the pipe yard of the Brookline Water Dept. A liquidation sale of its contents was held in June 1974 and the building was razed by the Brookline Redevelopment Authority.

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.

Looking down Cumberland Ave. toward Pond Ave. Designed by Cabot and Chandler and built in 1884 for Charles Storrow and Martha Cabot Storrow. It has been described as "is an intensely developed F.L. Olmsted, Sr. landscape that includes a ravine spanned by a stone bridge and hills banked up against a street-edge retaining wall of rough puddingstone boulders, forming a sort of "ha ha" (a one sided wall not visible from inside the property). "
[Source: Olmsted]

Looking north from Edgehill Rd. On the left is the rear of 112 H,igh St. In the distance, from left to right, are the rear of 92 High St., 82 High St., the outbuilding of 92 High St., all still standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking north from Edgehill Rd. On the left is the rear of 112 High St. In the distance, from left to right, are the rear of 92 High St., 82 High St., the outbuilding of 92 High St., all still standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

The house is sandwiched between two side roads: Edgehill Rd. on the right and Cumberland Ave. on the left. The house and the stone wall shown are still standing
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Residence of Samuel Cabot, Jr. 20 Edgehill Rd. is partially visible to the left. Both houses still standing. In the far distance is Boston's Mission Hill.

From left to right: 7/9/11 High St. Place, 3/5 High St. Place, and rear of 175 High St. as viewed from the yard of the Boston Elevated Railway - today’s Margaret E. Robinson playground.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

[Source: Brookline Public Library]

1899 – 1971. Parents: Joseph Andrew Bonner and Mary Ann Noel; married William Almy Occomy; lived at 221 Harvard St.

Her family moved to Brookline around the time of her birth in 1899. Her father then spent two decades as a live-in superintendent for Brookline apartment buildings - at 1369 Beacon from 1899 until circa 1911, then at 217-221 Harvard St. (still standing) until circa 1918 when the family purchased a home in Boston and Marita started college.

Marita Bonner was an accomplished author of short stories, essays, plays, and magazine articles and was prominent in the Harlem Renaissance. Her Wikipedia entry writes:

”She attended Brookline High School, where she contributed to the school magazine, The Sagamore. She excelled in German and Music, and was a very talented pianist. In 1917, she graduated from Brookline High School and in 1918 enrolled in Radcliffe College, commuting to campus because many African-American students were denied dormitory accommodation. In college, she majored in English and Comparative Literature, while continuing to study German and musical composition. At Radcliffe, African-American students were not permitted to board, and many either lived in houses off-campus set aside for black students, or commuted, as Bonner did. Bonner was an accomplished student at Radcliffe, founding the Radcliffe chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, a black sorority, and participating in many musical clubs (she twice won the Radcliffe song competition). She was also accepted to a competitive writing class that was open to 16 students, where her professor, Charles Townsend Copeland, encouraged her not to be "bitter" when writing, a descriptor often used for authors of color.[2] In addition to her studies, she taught at a high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

After finishing her schooling in 1922,[3] she continued to teach at Bluefield Colored Institute in West Virginia. Two years later, she took on a position at Armstrong High School in Washington, D.C., until 1930, during which time her mother and father both died suddenly. While in Washington, Bonner became closely associated with poet, playwright and composer Georgia Douglas Johnson. Johnson's "S Street salon" was an important meeting place for many of the writers and artists involved in the New Negro Renaissance.

While living in Washington D.C., Bonner met William Almy Occomy. They married and moved to Chicago, where Bonner's writing career took off. After marrying Occomy, she began to write under her married name. After 1941, Bonner gave up publishing her works and devoted her time to her family, including three children.[4] She began teaching again in the 1940s and finally retired in 1963.”

He owned a bookbinding firm and a publishing company, served as state representative from Brookline for five years, was a director of the Brookline National Bank, and was a director of the Brookline Friendly Society.

In 1896, he married Gertrude Steese. The wedding was held in the house of her parents at 105 Gardner Rd. and was considered to be a major event on the social calendar. The couple lived at several nearby locations until the death of Gertrude’s father, in 1902, when they moved in with her mother at the Gardner Road house. They continued to live at 105 Gardner Rd. unit his imprisonment in 1927.

He was an ally of Louis Brandeis, later the first Jewish justice of the United Supreme Court, in several policy battles and was a vigorous defender of Brandeis when the latter faced opposition to his appointment to the high court. Oddly, just four years after Brandeis’ accession to the court, White’s company published the first American edition of the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It is unclear what role White had in its publication; he worked in military intelligence during the First World War and may have been exposed to anti-Bolshevik, anti-Jewish propaganda. He later ran into financial difficulties and served two-and-a-half years in prison for larceny for securing bank loans based on false statements.

1878 - 1956; father: Jerome Jones; married, Philip Richardson Whitney, 17-Apr-1906, at her parent's house at 101 Summit Ave.

She is the only classmate to appear in more than one of the photos saved by Grace Mason Young. That’s most likely because they were the closest of friends, growing up across the street from one another on Summit Avenue. (Helen’s home at 101 Summit still stands, although much altered.) Helen studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1906 she married MIT graduate Philip R. Whitney, an artist and an instructor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work was exhibited in and around Philadelphia, as well as in New York, Chicago, and other cities. She and her husband summered on Nantucket for many years, and were active in the artist's colony there.

Photo #2

Photo #3; identity not confirmed

1878 - 1967; parents: Edward Sharp and Sophia Louise Robinson; lived at 12 Fairbanks St.

Her grandfather was Samuel A. Robinson who owned a tannery on Washington Street and lived in a house nearby where Marion was most likely born. He built a house in 1892 at 12 Fairbanks Street where three generations of the family lived. Marion was a winner of the J. Murray Kay Prize that year for her essay "Three Glimpses of Brookline: In 1700, 1800, and 1900. " She graduated from Smith College in 1901 and later taught school in Gloucester, Woburn, Brookline, and other towns.

1879 - 1967; Essay: "Brookline's Relation to Norfolk County"; lived at 88 Perry St.

First cousin of Martha Frothingham Ritchie. Their grandfather Edward S. Ritchie was an inventor and the founder of E.S. Ritchie & Son, a manufacturer of nautical compasses and scientific instruments in Brookline Village. He was a co-winner with Grace Mason of the 1898 J. Murray Kay Prize for his essay "The Relation of Brookline to Norfolk County. " He earned a mechanical engineering degree from MIT and had a career as an engineer in the Boston area, the Midwest and, finally, Pennsylvania where settled with his wife Grace Field Marvin.

1880 - 1977; Parents: Washington Irving Taylor and Ann Maria Bellamy; lived at 294 Walnut St.

His father was in the hat and fur business, worked for a railroad supply company and for Sprague Electric before managing Taylor Machinery, a metalworking firm in Boston. He was awarded a patent in 1921 for an automobile water gauge "so that---the driver may be informed at all times by visible means from his position when driving, whether or not the radiator water supply is in need of replenishment. " Tom, who was married twice and lived in Newton, later worked as a vault attendant for the Newton-Waltham Bank & Trust Co.

1879 - 1949; 1917: married, 1917, Bispham Homer Emerson; lived at 44 Linden St., later at 247 Fisher Ave.;

Graduated from the Tuckerman School on Beacon Hill. She became prominent in the Unitarian Universalist movement as a Sunday school teacher, superintendent, public speaker, and social worker. She was also active in support of peace movements and the welfare of Native Americans. She married fellow Unitarian activist B. Homer Emerson in in 1917 and continued to live in Brookline until her death.