Photograph by the Boston Herald newspaper on November 25, 1928 for a story on the upcoming dedication ceremony on December 12. At the time, the congregation was already the oldest in Boston at 86 years old. The still-undeveloped land on Kent St., part of a large estate, can be glimpsed on the left. Beacon St. is in the foreground.

Freeman St. , built 1912

Corner Marion St. and Harvard St.

Second Roman Catholic church to open (1897) in Brookline. Boylston St. west of Chestnut Hill Ave.

774 Boylston St. Just west of Chestnut Hill Ave.

Before the creation of Chapel St. and Longwood Station. David Sears house (now divided into townhouses) at the corner of Hawes & Colchester visible to the right

Newly constructed Longwood train station with Chapel St. behind it.

Carlton to the left, Monmouth going west to the right

In 1806, this church was erected 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.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking West, Pierce Hall is on the left, still standing. It was the first town hall and later the high school. Center is the First Parish Church which was torn down in 1891 and replaced by the current First Parish Unitarian Church.

On the right is 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]

Replaced in 1891 by the current First Parish Unitarian Church.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking west on Walnut St. just past the Pierce Hall.Torn down in 1891. Replaced by the current First Parish Unitarian Church

[Source: Olmsted]