Located at today’s 830 Newton St., this house stood next to the Saw Mill Brook where Drew ran a saw mill. The house and mill were built in 1693 and Drew later added a tavern to serve his homemade fermented-huckleberry wine to the mill customers. The mill ceased operation around 1830 and the house burned down in 1873. The recent construction of a new house on the lot revealed old foundations and artifacts and an archeological survey was performed by a team from Boston University, headed by Mary Beaudry. Photograph by A. H. Folsom
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Lee St. is in the foreground, Hillside Rd. and Heath Hill are above.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking west across the Brookline reservoir (drained)
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

A mail plane flying from New York to Boston lost power after experiencing a broken fuel line and was force to crash land on the estate. The only occupant was the pilot who was unharmed.
[Source: Joel Shield]

Newton St. at the park entrance. Maintained by the Historical Society.

House of John S. Wright, just west of High St. The stone wall remains, modified to accommodate the driveways and entrances of the replacement buildings.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]

He was a prominent abolitionist and this house was a stop on the Underground Railway

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Linda (Kennard) Winsor, widowed from Alfred Winsor a few years earlier, lived at 204 Walnut St., now addressed as 24 Walnut Place. She decided to vacate her house, much modified but still standing today, for the summer of 1919 so that it could be used by convalescing soldiers and sailors, two pictured here.
[ref. Brookline Chronicle, August 16, 1919, Page 1]
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

The three Stevenson sisters - Martha Curtis (1830), Francis Greely (1833), Anna Brace (1835) –apparently never married and lived together their entire lives, largely in Brookline. Circa 1869, after the death of their widowed mother in 1866, they moved from a house on Cypress St. to this house. In 1896, they moved to the house immediately behind theirs at 94 Upland Rd, which they had purchased in 1893. Also living with the sisters in this house, until her death in 1874, with Mary Elizabeth Curtis, their mother’s sister. It is likely that she is the one pictured in the upstairs window while two of the sisters are standing in the yard.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

In 1806, this church and meeting house was opened on the present-day site of the First Parish Unitarian Church. It replaced the original church which was located across Walnut St. opposite the Pierce Hall building. It was replaced in 1848.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

It is speculated that this is one of two photographs of a supper described in the May 7, 1887 issue of the Brookline Chronicle.

“The sewing circle connected with the First Parish closed the seasons laborers on May 3rd with a pleasant supper, and the exhibition of some views by a member recently returned from a journey to the South and West. A most important part of the entertainment was the voluntary offer of two young ladies to photograph the assembled company in a group around the table, thus giving tangible proof of the existing existence of a society which was organized in 1824.”

The room does not match ay rooms currently in Pierce Hall, which was a common site for similar gatherings, and remains unidentified. Nineteen names were listed with the photo: Mrs. Cobb, Eunice Noyes, Mary F. Wicks, Suey A. Brown, Bessie Noyes, Mrs. Clark, Miss Howard, Miss Adriana Brown, Susie Hayes, Mrs. Noyes, Mrs. Poor, Sadie Brown, Mrs. Mellen, Louise Brown, Mrs. Stearns, Annie Stearns, Mrs. Jenney, Mrs. Train, Mrs. Stodder. Eighteen women are seated and four younger girls are serving. All the participants who have been tentatively listed lived in the immediate area of the First Parish Church and Pierce Hall. There are several clusters of extended family members. Positively recognized in the photo is Mary Wild (Pierce) Poor. Her head is facing the camera and is just visible behind the young girl standing in the center of the photo.

A speculative analysis of the names shows:

Noyes Family (Walnut St.)

• Mrs. Noyes (1840-1915) - Susan Prescott (Wright) Noyes, wife of George Dana Noyes
• Elizabeth (“Bessie”) C. Noyes (1873-1955), daughter. An existing tintype of Elizabeth bears a resemblance to the older girl standing at the rear left of the table
• Emma Noyes (1876-1950), daughter. The roster actually names a “Eunice Noyes” but no records are evident for a “Eunice Noyes” in Brookline at this time, we are speculating that she is Emma, the other daughter of Susan Noyes. An existing tintype of Emma bears a significant resemblance to the young girl approaching the table on the left side

Extended family of Rev. Howard Nicolson Brown, Pastor of the First Parish Church

• Sarah (“Sadie”) Brown (1878 - 1955), daughter
• Mary Louise Brown (1873-1947), daughter
• Mary F. Wicks (1828-1904), mother of Inez Wicks, wife of Howard Brown

Extended Stearns Family

• Mrs. Stearns (1824- 1904), Anna Maria (Mellen) Stearns, wife of Charles Henry Stearns
• Mrs. Mellen (1803-1899), the mother of Mrs. Stearns
• Annie Stearns (1864-1901). Listed with her maiden name although she married Alexander Stoddard Jenney in 1886. After Annie’s death he married her sister.
• Mrs. Jenney (1836-1912). Mary Hannah (Howes) Jenney, wife of Noah Stoddard Jenney; mother-in-law of Annie Stearns; lived on Walnut St.

Others

• Mrs. Cobb (1830-1911), wife of Albert A. Cobb, nee Mary Russell Candler. Lived on Walnut Terrace
• Miss Adriana Brown (1805-1893), never married. Lived on Cypress St. near Walnut St. No apparent relation to the other Browns.
• Mrs. Poor (1820-1912), Wife of Henry Varnum Poor, nee Mary Wild Pierce. Daughter of Lucy Tappan and Rev. John Pierce, former pastor of the church. Lived across Walnut St. from the church.
• Frances (“Fanny”) G. Train, widow of Samuel F. Train. Lived on nearby Chestnut Pl.
• Mrs. Stodder (1830-1921) , wife of Henry Franklin Stodder, nee Isabella Binney. Lived on Walnut St.
• Susan Frances Haynes (1841-1934), never married.

Unidentified

• Miss Howard
• Suey A. Brown
• Mrs. Clark

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

It is speculated that this is one of two photographs of a supper described in the May 7, 1887 issue of the Brookline Chronicle.

“The sewing circle connected with the First Parish closed the seasons laborers on May 3rd with a pleasant supper, and the exhibition of some views by a member recently returned from a journey to the South and West. A most important part of the entertainment was the voluntary offer of two young ladies to photograph the assembled company in a group around the table, thus giving tangible proof of the existing existence of a society which was organized in 1824.”

The room does not match ay rooms currently in Pierce Hall, which was a common site for similar gatherings, and remains unidentified. Nineteen names were listed with the photo: Miss Potter, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Noyes, Mrs. Barnet, Sarah Clark, Annie Stearns, Mrs. Jenney, Miss Howard, Mrs. Stodder, Sadie Brown, Bessie Noyes, Eunice Noyes, Louise Brown, Mrs. Poor, Miss Adriana Brown, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Stearns, Susie Hayens, Mrs. Guild, Mrs. Train, Mrs. Clark. Eighteen women are seated and four younger girls are serving. All the participants who have been tentatively identified lived in the immediate area of the First Parish Church and Pierce Hall. There are several clusters of extended family members. Positively recognized in the photo is Mary Wild (Pierce) Poor. She is the woman in white in the center of the photo. Speculatively recognized is Emma Noyes, the seated girl with long hair wearing a white apron.

A speculative analysis of the names shows:

Noyes Family (Walnut St.)

• Mrs. Noyes (1840-1915) - Susan Prescott (Wright) Noyes, wife of George Dana Noyes
• Elizabeth (“Bessie”) C. Noyes (1873-1955), daughter. An existing tintype of Elizabeth bears a resemblance to the older girl standing at the rear left of the table
• Emma Noyes (1876-1950), daughter. The roster actually names a “Eunice Noyes” but no records are evident for a “Eunice Noyes” in Brookline at this time, we are speculating that she is Emma, the other daughter of Susan Noyes. An existing tintype of Emma bears a significant resemblance to the young girl approaching the table on the left side

Extended family of Rev. Howard Nicolson Brown, Pastor of the First Parish Church

• Sarah (“Sadie”) Brown (1878 - 1955), daughter
• Mary Louise Brown (1873-1947), daughter
• Mary F. Wicks (1828-1904), mother of Inez Wicks, wife of Howard Brown

Extended Stearns Family

• Mrs. Stearns (1824- 1904), Anna Maria (Mellen) Stearns, wife of Charles Henry Stearns
• Annie Stearns (1864-1901). Listed with her maiden name although she married Alexander Stoddard Jenney in 1886. After Annie’s death he married her sister.
• Mrs. Jenney (1836-1912). Mary Hannah (Howes) Jenney, wife of Noah Stoddard Jenney; mother-in-law of Annie Stearns; lived on Walnut St.

Others

• Miss Adriana Brown (1805-1893), never married. Lived on Cypress St. near Walnut St. No apparent relation to the other Browns.
• Mrs. Poor (1820-1912), Wife of Henry Varnum Poor, nee Mary Wild Pierce. Daughter of Lucy Tappan and Rev. John Pierce, former pastor of the church. Lived across Walnut St. from the church. The listing of “Mrs. Stodder” should likely be two entries for Mrs. Stodder and Mrs. Poor as listed in the cousin photo.
• Frances (“Fanny”) G. Train, widow of Samuel F. Train. Lived on nearby Chestnut Pl.
• Mrs. Stodder (1830-1921), wife of Henry Franklin Stodder, nee Isabella Binney. Lived on Walnut St.
• Susan Frances Haynes (1841-1934), never married.
• Sarah Davis Clark (1813-1902), lived with her sister on Olmsted’s property nearby.

Unidentified

• Miss Howard
• Mrs. Clark
• Mrs. Guild
• Mrs. Miller
• Mrs. Barnet
• Mrs. Potter

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

This is the third iteration of the First Parish Unitarian Church. It replaced the second building, on the same site, in 1848 and, in turn, was torn down in 1891 and replaced by the current First Parish Unitarian Church. Photo by Richard Hills.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking West:

• Left: Pierce Hall, still standing. It was the first town hall and later the high school.
• Center: the third iteration of the First Parish Unitarian Church. It replaced the second building in 1848 and, in turn, was torn down in 1891 and replaced by the current First Parish Unitarian Church.
• Right: the house of Henry Varnum Poor, still standing (although highly modified). Poor was a New York attorney who married Mary Pierce, daughter of the Rev. John Pierce, minister at the First Parish Church across the street. At the time he bought this house, Poor was best known as the editor of the American Railroad Journal. One of the first people to systematically collect, compile, and disseminate reliable business information, he went on to found the Standard and Poor Corporation, publishers of widely read compendiums of business information. The next owner of the house was Olive Higgins Prouty (1882-1974), a novelist most active in the period between the First and Second World Wars.

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

This is the third iteration of the First Parish Unitarian Church. It replaced the second building, on the same site, in 1848 and, in turn, was torn down in 1891 and replaced by the current First Parish Unitarian Church.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Residence of Martin Parry Kennard. The house, modified, serves as the Brookline Music School building at 26 Kennard Rd. In 1895, Kennard and his neighbor to the east, Stephen Bennett, were given permission by the town to lay out an extension of Chestnut St. connecting Walnut St.and Boylston. It was later renamed to Kennard Rd.