Looking east from Hammond St. From right to center:

• Sing Lee, Laundry, 1174 Boylston St. (partial view)
• Apartment building, 1172 Boylston St.
• Apartment building, 1168 Boylston St.
• Large apartment building, 1164 Boylston St., still standing

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Addressed as number 1023 on Boylston St. which runs right behind the clubhouse.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Addressed as number 1023 on Boylston St. which runs right behind the clubhouse.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking east, Reservoir Lane. is unseen around the corner. This photo is likely made of the just-completed widening of Boylston St. and the laying of trolley tracks in late 1900. Note that the supporting poles of the electric feed stop abruptly on the north side where the trolley tracks cease sharing the general roadway. The poles resume on the specially laid-out segregated section of track that goes up the hill.
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Looking east, all houses still standing. From left to right:

• 1117 Boylston St., partial view
• 1109 Boylston St.
• 1101 Boylston St.
• 1089 Boylston St.

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking east, Dunster enters on the right.
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Boylston St. west is to the right. Louis Henry Graves had been working at the Young and Brown drug store in Coolidge Corner and then opened his own drug store at 1186 Boylston St. circa 1907. The business changed hands circa 1924. The apartment building on the left and the rearmost one on the right are still standing.

Boylston St. looking west from Hammond St. Louis Henry Graves opened his drug store at 1186 Boylston St. circa 1907 after working at the Young and Brown drug store in Coolidge Corner. He sold the business circa 1924.

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Standing on Hammond St. looking south across Boylston St. at 1186 Boylston St., the Quinlan Pharmacy. On the far left is 615 Hammond St., still standing, with 609 Hammond St. next to the pharmacy. On the right of the pharmacy is 1188 Boylston St.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Edward Finnerty, not pictured, was the son of an Irish immigrant. By 1885 he and his family were living in the area of Boylston St. and Hammond St., an area with a number of other Irish families. He was an “ice-man” working for the Jamaica Pond Ice Company in the days before refrigerators when ice blocks were delivered to houses. In 1892, the Finnerty family moved to this house at 1198 Boylston St. where they remained in various iterations until 1924.

In the photo are the following:

• Catherine (Kit) J. Finnerty (b. 1892)
• Helen Francis (Ellen) Finnerty (b. 1889)
• Edward J. Finnerty (b. 1883), he later worked as a driver for an ice company
• John Joseph Finnerty (b. 1879)
• Mary T. Finnerty (b. 1877)
• Nellie Walsh, details unknown

Contributor: Mary Ellen Carney
[Source: University of Massachusetts Boston]

Built in 1753; no longer standing

Near Heath St. and Woodland Rd.

The house was located on Heath St. on the southwest corner of today’s Woodland Rd. It was built in 1740 by Nathaniel Stedman and later purchased by Benjamin White who owned a lot of land along Heath St. Thomas C. Quimby and family then lived in this house from the 1850s until 1892.

The identity of the two young girls shown cannot be determined. They do not appear to fit the profile of any of Quimby family members. Quimby’s one surviving son also lived in the Heath St. house but only had one daughter. Only one of Quimby’s four daughters was born after 1850 and all remained single, later living together around the corner on Hammond St.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Formerly located on the small hill, corner Woodland Rd. and Heath St. House later owned by Andrew Adie. Now the Soule Playground. The estate's stable is currently the headquarters of the Brookline Recreation Dept.

At today's 114 Clyde St. Built in 1723 by John Woodward, occupied for many years by George Goldsmith

At today's 114 Clyde St. Built in 1723 by John Woodward, occupied for many years by George Goldsmith
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Looking at rear of the house toward Newton St., Lagrange St. is to the left. This house stood roughly where today’s 648 Newton St. is located, a little east of LaGrange St. An approximate timeline is:

• House built in the late 1600s by Vincent Druce, later assumed by his son. Then passed to the family of Ebenezer Craft and known as “Craft’s place”
• 1859: Francis Parkman Denny, Sr. moves into the house
• 1860: Denny marries Emily Parker Groom
• 1871: Denny moves into a new house up the hill. Charles R. Dow, Denny’s farmer, takes over the Newton St. house
• 1872: Denny dies. Wife and family remain in the house on the hill
• Circa 1890: Charles R. Dow changes primary house to Newton St. at Grove St.
• Circa 1898: the land owned by Denny is purchased by investors and changed to a subdivision of house lots. Wolcott Rd. created and farm house torn down

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This house stood roughly where today’s 648 Newton St. is located, a little east of LaGrange St. An approximate timeline is:

• House built in the late 1600s by Vincent Druce, later assumed by his son. Then passed to the family of Ebenezer Craft and known as “Craft’s place”
• 1859: Francis Parkman Denny, Sr. moves into the house
• 1860: Denny marries Emily Parker Groom
• 1871: Denny moves into a new house up the hill. Charles R. Dow, Denny’s farmer, takes over the Newton St. house
• 1872: Denny dies. Wife and family remain in the house on the hill
• Circa 1890: Charles R. Dow changes primary house to Newton St. at Grove St.
• Circa 1898: the land owned by Denny is purchased by investors and changed to a subdivision of house lots. Wolcott Rd. created and farm house torn down

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]