Circa 1920s. On the left is the Devotion School building constructed in 1892, no longer standing. In the middle is the rear of the Devotion house. An ell, previously on the right rear of the house, has been removed.
[Source: Joel Shield]

[Source: Hudson Scanning]

The original Devotion house can be seen where it stands today, in the middle of the buildings of the school. The school building on the right was built in 1892, the one on the left in 1898, and the middle building, which is still in use, in 1913.

A four-room school house that opened in April 1888. Named after J. Eliot Cabot, a Brookline architect and one-time school committee member. When the school on Harvard and Pleasant streets was closed for the 1888 widening of Beacon St., the students moved to the Cabot School. Torn down in 1957 for subsidized housing now on the site.

A four-room school house at 32 Marion St. that opened in April 1888 and is no longer standing. When the school on Harvard and Pleasant streets was closed for the 1888 widening of Beacon St., the students moved to the Cabot School. The house at 44 Marion St. is under construction on the right, still standing.

Page 1, plate 7276. 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]

A four-room school house at 32 Marion St. that opened in April 1888 and is no longer standing. When the school on Harvard and Pleasant streets was closed for the 1888 widening of Beacon St., the students moved to the Cabot School. For the 1891-1892 school session the principle was Lillian M. Watton and the kindergarten teachers were Annie P. Burgess and Florence Hersey.

Page 2, plate 7277. 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]

A four-room school house at 32 Marion St. that opened in April 1888 and is no longer standing. When the school on Harvard and Pleasant streets was closed for the 1888 widening of Beacon St., the students moved to the Cabot School. For the 1891-1892 school session the principle was Lillian M. Watton and the first-grade teachers were Annie M. Osgood, Helen F. Wetherbee, and Mary E. Kingsbury.

Page 3, plate 7278. 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]

The school took over the old Eben Jordan mansion at 1600 Beacon St. The mansion served as the Choate School (Country Boarding and Day School For Girls) from 1922-1950 and the building was torn down in 1955. For the 1931 graduation ceremony, 38 diplomas were presented by Augusta Choate to:

Marianne Q. Appel, Marie B. Bonnycastle, Camilla S. Bowman,
Betty Broughton, Allison C. Buckman, Patti J. Byars,
Barbara H. Donaldson, Mary E. Donnelly, Laura S. H. Drane,
Myra K. Flint, Mary Greeley, Helen Horne,
Elizabeth H. Johnson, Helen R. Johnson, Charlotte Jones,
Mary S. Jordan, Marianne R. Kellar, Mary M. Kingsley,
Mary R. Kline, Mary S. Lewis, Nancy E. Marean,
Elizabeth J. Maynard, Elizabeth Myers, Marion Myers,
Ruth Myers, Elizabeth M. ODonel, Fanny Parrock,
Hope Ramsay, Virginia T. Ray.. Mary J. M. Rice,
Phyllis J. Sager, Elizabeth Sawyer, Nancy V. Sheppard,
Jeanne R. Taylor, Emily Tompkins, Eleanor L. Vanderhoof,
Phyllis White, Lucille G. Wolfe.

At the northeast corner of Reservoir Rd. and Boylston St., looking east. This building replaced the aging Heath School buildings on Heath St. It opened for the fall semester in 1904. The school was renamed in 2023 for Roland Hayes the famed tenor, pioneer, and Brookline resident. No longer standing.

Page 12, plate 7286. 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]

On the side blackboard, the poem “Jack in the Pulpit” by Clara Smith is written. On the rear black board, the opening lines of the poem “Jack in the Pulpit” by John Greenleaf Whittier are written.

Page 13, plate 7287. 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]

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., 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]

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

[l. to r.] Manual Training School building, still standing; Public Baths, no longer standing; Municipal Gymnasium, no longer standing.

Looking from Prospect St., School St. is on the right. It was built in 1856, with funds from the bequest of Edward Devotion, and demolished circa 1901. Note the two entrances in front of building, one for boys and one for girls.