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.

This is speculatively identified as looking north on South St. with Grove St. to the right, the long-time home of John Magee and family.

(ID) 085
(Slide ID) P 60-12
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

This is the only known photo of the school.

(ID) 119
(Slide ID) P-25-11
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

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.

This film was created by the Brookline Redevelopment Authority to promote the replacement of the neighborhood known as “The Farm”. The film shows both exterior and interior scenes intended as a counterpoint to the new housing units of the Brookline Housing Authority, notably the one on nearby High Street built in 1948-49, designed by Richmond & Goldberg.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Most of the center of the photo was razed in the early 1960s as part of an urban renewal program. The core area was known as "The Farm".

Razed for the Brook House complex.

Lower Washington St. is to the left.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]