[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

This photo was taken shortly before the widening of Beacon St. The house of Charles H. Stearns is on the left. Its apparent standing as a typical house on Beacon St. is misleading and requires explanation:

• The house was built in 1767 before Beacon St. existed (1851). It fronted on Pleasant St. and was positioned at a right angle to the street. It is seen at an angle here because Pleasant St. ran diagonally across Beacon St. approximately where the carriage is seen.
• The driveway (viewed in the Pleasant St. photos) is on the left side of the house in this photo, as is the front of the house.
• Charles Stearns would soon be compelled to move his house 400 feet to the southwest to Harvard St. to accommodate the 1888 widening of Beacon St., a requirement he actively opposed.

With the death of Charles H. Stearns in October 1935, the house, the last holdout in a prime commercial location, was demolished. This photo also has an excellent view of how the planks were slightly raised on the wooden sidewalks
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking east on Beacon toward St. Paul St. Corner of building from the Stearns property visible on the right

Harvard St. looking north toward Brighton on the right. Beacon St. heading west is to the left. Store established 1857, replaced by S.S. Pierce building.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

From left to right:

• 1295 Beacon St., the post office, essentially unchanged today
• 1297 Beacon St., still standing
• 1299 Beacon St.

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking east on Beacon St.
Background left: carriages are traveling both directions on the northern side of Beacon St. with no visible traffic on the southern side, presumably because of the greater width of the northern side. The town passed an ordnance in 1924 established unidirectional traffic.
[Source: Iowa State]

Looking east on Beacon St. from Coolidge Corner
[Source: Iowa State]

[Source: Iowa State]

From right to left:

• 1304 Beacon St. Coolidge Corner Candies and Ice Cream has been closed.
• 1306 Beacon St. Alfred Brown, Photographer
• 1308 Beacon St. Western Union Telegraph
• 1310 Beacon St. Lewandos , cleaners
• 1312 Beacon St. Ladies Specialty Shop
• 1314 Beacon St. Alice Merril, Florist

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Identifiable businesses, from right to left:

• 1294 Beacon St. Berts Hat Shop
• 1294A Beacon St. William J. Foley, Industrial Bankers
• 1296 Beacon St. Coolidge Corner Fruit
• 1298 Beacon St. London Wine Co.
• 1300 Beacon St. Hood’s Creamery
• 1302 Beacon St. E. F. Kemp, confectioners
• 1304 Beacon St. Lewandos, cleaners (not seen)
• 1306 Beacon St. Alfred Brown, photographer (large sign on roof)
• 1308 Beacon St. Western Union
• 1310 Beacon St. Winchester Sportswear for Women
• 1314 Beacon St. Waldorf Restaurant
• 1316 Beacon St. paint store
• 1320 Beacon St. Coolidge Corner Cooperative Bank
• 1320 Beacon St. Homer T. Brown, Real Estate

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

This photo was taken at the same time as another photo posted on the Historic New England web site.
[Source: Historic New England]

Storefronts visible on the north side of Beacon St. include two businesses that were likely initial tenants in the newly-constucted (1913) building known as the "Pierce Block": the Stone Bros. at #1340 and A. M. Johnstone, tailor, at #1348. McElroy Bros. Real Estate, at 1352 Beacon, is first listed in the town directory of 1920. At the extreme left of the photo are the trailing letters from the sign of Simon's Shoe & Boot Shop, which opened in 1916 at #1350 and expanded in 1923 to include #1354 Beacon.

On the south side of Beacon, the third car from the left is identified as a Dodge Brothers Model Touring car, a model first introduced in 1914 and manufactured into the 1920s.

Visible on the northeast corner of Beacon and Harvard are Harvard Taxi, Poulin Bros. and Rexall.
[Source: Historic New England]

A number of To Let signs can be seen in the store windows on the left. It can be deduced that the building, replacing the previous building that was destroyed by fire in January 1913, has recently opened. The storefront, where this brown-brick building joins with the Pierce Building to its right, has the window letttering for the real estate firm of Harold G. King, at 1336 Beacon.
[Source: Historic New England]

[Source: Historic New England]

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking towards Beacon St. Photo by Henry A. Varney, Brookline town engineer.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking from Beacon St. A & P Grocery store is on the left. Photo by Henry A. Varney, Brookline town engineer.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

[Source: Historic New England]

Removed with the widening of Beacon. Replaced by the Devotion School.