Brookline Water Works High Pumping Station visible behind the school.

“The almshouse was constructed in 1883 on Newton Street, near the Putterham School. The almshouse provided Brookline poor with shelter, food, and work, and produced and sold items such as wood, potatoes, and hay. The almshouse was converted to an infirmary in 1931. On the site of the almshouse, the Town built various hospitals including the first hospital in 1894, later named the Contagious Disease Hospital. In 1901, a complex of six buildings were constructed to house patients with diptheria and scarlet fever. In 1916, a new tuberculosis hospital was opened. All of the hospitals and the old almshouse were demolished in 1954.” [source: brooklinema.gov]

Sign in the front says Newton St. and lists mileages to various locations

[Source: Joel Shield]

A bronze tablet, still in place today, was affixed to the building above the front two windows and unveiled at this afternoon ceremony. On the right the tablet is covered with a cloth and there are poles leading up to it, presumably in preparation for the unveiling. A presentation was given by Rebecca (Hyde) Silsby, perhaps the standing woman facing the group in the photo, who taught at the school from 1871-1877 and whose sister, Mary Elizabeth Hyde, taught there from 1887-1902.

The official name for the school, “Newton Street School”, was retired with the unveiling and changed back to its historical version, “The Putterham School”.

Photo by Harris W. Reynolds

Grove & Newton Sts.,

Pictured in front of the Newton Street School (formerly Putterham) is the carriage known as “the barge”. It initially provided transportation for area students who were past the grade-three limit of the school and now attended the Heath School. It followed a three-mile route which began at the corner of Heath St. and Hammond St., the property of driver James Fegan, and proceeded along Hammond St., Newton St., Clyde St., Warren St., and back to Heath St.

Looking northwest at the rear of 274 Dean Rd. on the left and, left to right: #275 and #271.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking northwest at the rear of houses on Dean Rd. From left to right: #274, #266, #260.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking southeast (from left to right): at 12/16 Ackers Ave., 22 Ackers Ave. and 10 Loveland Rd.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking southeast at Boston just east of today’s Aspinwall Park. In the distance on the left is the west side of the Boston’s House of the Good Shepherd on Huntington Ave. and on the right is Boston’s Parker Hill.

This is most likely work on the “Aspinwall Brook” or the new sewer line being put in next to it. And it is probable that these are students from The Robert Winthrop School just to the right on Brookline Ave.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

From left to right:

• The house of Hugh Murray at 100 Pearl St.
• Feeder station hydrant used to fill street-watering wagons.
• School, 599 Brookline Ave., the building is still standing.
• The bridge over the railroad tracks on Aspinwall Ave.

Page 4, plate 7279. 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]

599 Brookline Ave., still standing.
[Source: Iowa State]

599 Brookline Ave., building still standing. Kindergarten teachers for the 1891-1892 school session were Adeline T. Joyce and Catherine Wentworth.

Page 5, plate 7280. 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]

599 Brookline Ave., building still standing.

Page 6, plate 7281. 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]

These buildings were demolished in 1962 and replaced by the current buildings at 50 Druce St. The June 25, 1921 issue of the Chronicle lists the following 83 graduates (29 boys and 54 girls). The class photo, however, only shows 41 students (14 boys and 27 girls). The discrepancy is unexplained. An additional curiosity is the fact that the girls outnumber the boys two-to-one. Class list:

Josephine J. Albrecht Alice Atkins Mildred E. Bates Norman J. Beisel, Jr. Lydia N. Blythe Jennie Z. Bronstein Emily E. S. Bull Robert M. Burley Sylvia R. Carol Elizabeth A. Chisholm Elizabeth Clark Sylvia Clark Eleanor M. Coakley Phyllis E. Coffin Mabel P. Cook Dorothy Cottrell Rosamond M. Cummings Ellwood M. Currier Lawrence E. Duane Eleanor F. Duff Margaret W. Dukelow Olga W. Eastman Elbridge G. Emmons, Jr. J. Prescott Emmons Eleanor A. Fitts Helena F. Flanagan John T. Floyd, Jr. Margaret Folsom Charles Frank, Jr. Elizabeth Frank Natalie Gallagher Eileene G. Goudey Marion F. Gould Nannette Gutman Sears L. Hallett Elizabeth C. Haven Virginia Haynes Virginia Heiges Ransom F. Hodges Clarice G. Holloway George C. Humphreys

Charlotte L. James Margaret Jenkins Albert A. Johnson, Jr. Barbara T. Joss Elisabeth B. Keyes Dorothy Klous Cynthia W. Lynch Florence W. MacDougall Florence M. Marshall Merriam J. Marshall Eleanor H. Matsuki John A. McField Paul D. McManus Sheldon Miner Dorothy L. Morgan Eugenia E. Morse William W. Munsell Madeline E. Murphy Frederick K. Daggett, Jr. Kingsbury S. Nickerson Estella M. Norris George F. Olsen, Jr. Miriam S. Orlick Mary E. Roblin Barbara D. Rogers Richard W. Sallinger Henry S. Shea Frank E. Sheldon Wilma Small Eric F. Smith Carolyn Stanley Dorothy Stone Righton M. Swicegood Edith H. Townsend Gordon Tucker Francis W. Tully, Jr. Constance Tyler Ruth Walker Ethel M. Ward George M. Watson, Jr. Katharine B. Whitney William H. Willis, Jr.

Buildings demolished in 1962 and replaced by the current buildings at 50 Druce St.