Brookline Historical Society
Photo Collection

Tappan St. & Blake Rd., December 23, 1915
143 Tappan St. to the left is still standing.
[Source: Olmsted]
156 Tappan St.
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]
Tappan St.
#162, on the left, and #170, both still standing.
163 Tappan St.
Gardner Rd. is on the left. Built in 1885, still standing. Carriage house in the rear is still standing.
225 Tappan St.
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]
225 Tappan St.
House of William Bowditch, no longer standing..
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
Blake Estate, Aspinwall Hill, 450 Washington St.
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]
10 Spooner Rd., 1927
From an album of photographs commemorating the construction of the house for Elbert Alphaeus Harvey (1877-1962), Lucille Stimson Harvey (1882-1972), and their three children. Mrs. Harvey was a dietician who worked at the Brookline Food Center and, in 1919, was appointed Brookline’s town dietician, the first such position in the country.

The photographer was Dorothy Jarvis whose studio was on Cypress St. at the corner of Washington St.
Brookline Swimming Club, 1920
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
Station St. and Hearthstone Plaza
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]
Station St., August 1965
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.
The Country Club
The Country Club
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]
The Country Club, 1906
The Country Club
The Country Club, 1908
The Country Club, 1920
The Country Club, Horse Racing, 1926
June 17th, 1926, second race. Jenny Dean wins over Millenium.
The Country Club, Horse Racing
The Country Club, Aerial View
[Source: Olmsted]
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