Brookline Historical Society
Longwood Area and The Muddy River

100 Longwood Ave., 1888
North side of Longwood, midway between St. Paul and Marshall St., no longer standing.
83 Longwood Ave, October 1908
Corner of St. Paul, looking east on Longwood Ave. Brick fence of the Charles G. Way house at #73 Longwood is visible at the far right, #83 is to its left.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
90 Longwood Ave.
House of James Adams famly, no longer standing.
[Source: Historic New England]
Longwood Ave. Trolley, 1891
This rare photo shows the trolley traveling westward having just passed St. Paul St. on its way to Coolidge Corner. It is approaching the house of Charles Dudley at 60 Longwood Ave. Dudley, who had recently purchased the property, would soon move his house to the west and sell the expanded corner property, vacant in the photo, to Jacob Bates who constructed his house there.

This trolley line would soon be eliminated and the tracks, which only ran on the north side of Longwood Ave., removed.
[Source: Leo Sullivan]
86 Longwood Ave., 1888
Home of Jacob P. Bates. No longer standing.
Longwood Ave., November 1915
Looking east from St. Paul St., #86 is on the immediate left. Visible houses are no longer standing.
[Source: Olmsted]
73 Longwood Ave., 1888
St. Paul St. going south, to the right. House of Charles G. Way. No longer standing. #83 Longwood is partially visible on the left, it is still standing today as the Beech Tree Inn.
5 Longwood Ave., 1888.
Looking east on Longwood to the left. To the right is Harvard St. Home of Levi Willcutt. #11 Longwood Ave., home of William Bittenbender, is partially visible on the left.
203 Kent St., 1888.
Residence of Edward W. Murray, no longer standing.
256 Kent St., 1888.
House of John Gardner Curtis and his wife, Helen Mary Bramhall. Northwest corner of the old Stearns St., now Newell Rd., the house is no longer standing. It is likely that the little girl in the photo is their daughter, Harriett G. Curtis, born 26-Nov-1884.
9 Francis St., 1888
Residence of George P. May. Kent St. to the right, the old Lawrence School is partially visible on the left. House still standing.
232 Kent St.
Still standing. 240 Kent St. is partially visible to the right.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
97 Francis St.
Still standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
217 Kent St., 1888.
Residence of Llewellyn Powers, no longer standing. #203 is visble to the right. Powers was a multi-term congressman from Maine and two-time governor of that state. He was also a lawyer and decided, in 1887, to leave public service in Maine to practice law in Massachusetts. He spent four years in Brookline and then returned to politics in Maine.
259 Kent St., circa 1888
Built 1875, designed by S. Edwin Tobey, still standing. House of Daniel Barrett, a manager at Whitman and Barnes Manufacturing Co., Boston
287 Kent St., Corner of Longwood Ave., 1888.
Still standing.
Francis St.
Looking east from St. Paul St.
[Source: Joel Shield]
St. Paul St. at Stearns Rd.., November 1915
Looking north from Stearns Rd. #93, 97,101, 105, apartment buildings all still standing.
[Source: Olmsted]
36 Alton Place
Eliakim Littell, founded Littell’s Living Age, a publication lasting nearly 100 years that reprinted highlights from American and British newspapers. His son, Robert Littell, took over the reins after his death with his sister, Susan Littell, assisting as editor. After Robert died in 1896, the house was purchased by Harry Freeman who tore down the house, created a cross street in its place, named Littell Rd., and built a development of houses.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
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