Standing on Gardner Rd. looking up at Wintrhop Rd. Replaced the William Aspinwall house. No longer standing.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

143 Tappan St. to the left is still standing.
[Source: Olmsted]

Looking toward Boylston St., circa 1876. On the left in the far distance is the First Parish Church on Walnut St. On the right is a rear view of the house of the Goddards on Boylston St. with its outbuildings to the right. The tracks of the railroad, today’s MBTA “D” line, can be glimpsed in the valley right behind the Tappan St. house.

From Photographs of Brookline: taken about 1876 / Richard Hills. Call No.: BROOKLINE/Special (CAGE B.R. 974 H6), Brookline Public Library.
[Source: Brookline Public Library]

#162, on the left, and #170, both still standing.

Gardner Rd. is on the left. Built in 1885, still standing. Carriage house in the rear is still standing.

House of William Bowditch, no longer standing. Partially visible on the left is 261 Tappan St., the house of Sarah Bowditch, still standing. Partially visible in the rear is 164 Rawson Rd., the house of Frederick Channing Bowditch, still standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

House of William Bowditch, no longer standing..
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

The estate comprised a large amount of land on the hill above today’s high school. The house itself was located approximately at the southeast corner of today’s Blake Rd. and Gardner Rd. It was owned by two generations of the Blake family and was originally purchased from Lewis Tappan. It was torn down in 1941 and the land developed as today’s Blake Park.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking north from Lower Washington St. Construction on the Hearthstone Plaza is in progress, the first stage of the leveling and reconstruction of the area then known as “The Marsh” by the Brookline Redevelopment Authority. Groundbreaking took place in February 1969 so the photo is late 1969/early 1970. Pearl St. is in the middle. Some buildings have already been razed for the large parking lot and the rest will be razed in the next few years. In the upper right is the large smoke stack of Brannen’s Laundry was there for 75 years and even considered to be an historic landmark of sorts when it had to be torn down in 1980.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

The house in the middle is now a raised parking lot.

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 at the rear of 209 Newton St. and its outbuildings center photo in the distance. House on the hill roughly near today’s Dexter School is viewed in the distance on the right.
[Source: Historic New England]

June 17th, 1926, second race. Jenny Dean wins over Millenium.

[Source: Olmsted]

The women, especially Mrs. Cabot, appear to be wearing riding outfits with matching bowler hats. The event is unidentified but is probably at The Country Club. From left to right:

• Olivia Ames Cabot (1893-1978). In 1927, she married Henry Bromfield Cabot Jr. who grew up on Heath St.
• Abigail Adams Homans (1879-1974), the seated woman in the multi-colored coat. She was the great-great-granddaughter of President John Adams and named after his wife. In 1907, she married Robert Homans, a lawyer, and they lived in Boston.
• Constance Wharton Smith (1894-1965), standing woman on the right. She was to married Henry St. John Smith and lived in Portland, Maine. By 1930 she was divorced and living in Boston with her two children.