• On the left are houses on the north side of School St. including #87 in the middle which is still standing.
• Pierce Grammar School, south side of School St.
• Library, foreground right.
• Pierce Primary School, center.

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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.

From left to right:

• 137 Washington St., Davis Restaurant
• 131 Washington St., Sagamore Liquors
• 127 Washington St., Hughes Pharmacy
• 123/123 Washington St.
• 115/117 Washington St.
• 105-113 Washington St. block including Brookline Village Shoe Store at #109, Mutual Auto School at #107, and the now-closed movie theater
• 103 Washington St., partial view of the White Tower restaurant

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

The Hotel Beaconsfield was built in 1905 as a luxury hotel serving both short-term and long-term stays. After a fire of suspicious origin in 1966 it was torn down leaving a trash-strewn site for a number of years until today’s Regency Park apartment complex was opened in 1980.

The Union Building, a massive stone structure located at the corner of High and Walnut streets, was erected by the Brookline Friendly Union, a group formed to improve the lives of the poor of Brookline. The building was to be the center for all the charitable activities in Brookline. There were rooms for club work, a hall for dramatic and musical entertainment, a coffee room, a gymnasium, a billiard room, a bowling alley, and a "conversation room in the basement for working men to congregate to discuss the affairs of the nation."

The building was razed in 1961 to make way for public housing as part of the Brookline Redevelopment Authority’s urban renewal project in the area known as The Farm.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

The Union Building, a massive stone structure located at the corner of High and Walnut streets, was erected by the Brookline Friendly Union, a group formed to improve the lives of the poor of Brookline. The building was to be the center for all the charitable activities in Brookline. There were rooms for club work, a hall for dramatic and musical entertainment, a coffee room, a gymnasium, a billiard room, a bowling alley, and a "conversation room in the basement for working men to congregate to discuss the affairs of the nation."

The building was razed in 1961 to make way for public housing as part of the Brookline Redevelopment Authority’s urban renewal project in the area known as The Farm.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

This is one of three experimental school garden projects initiated by the Brookline Education Society. Annie Crocker made the land adjacent to her house available to the Lincoln School. In May 1903, students aged 12 – 15 from the seventh and eighth grade were each given a 7 ft. by 9 ft. plot for growing vegetables. Several of the photos from this series appeared in the newspapers of the time.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking east. Apartment buildings on the north side of Boylston St. are visible on the left, 316 Boylston St. is on the right.

This is one of three experimental school garden projects initiated by the Brookline Education Society. Annie Crocker made the land adjacent to her house available to the Lincoln School. In May 1903, students aged 12 – 15 from the seventh and eighth grade were each given a 7 ft. by 9 ft. plot for growing vegetables. Several of the photos from this series appeared in the newspapers of the time.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

The Lyman house was built in 1844 on a 36-acre estate and was maintained for multiple generations. The house was torn down in 1956 and the land is now home to office buildings on the Boylston St. side and a modern housing development.
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[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Viewed from Beacon St.
[Source: Joel Shield]

The Lyman house was built in 1844 on a 36-acre estate and was maintained for multiple generations. The house was torn down in 1956 and the land is now home to office buildings on the Boylston St. side and a modern housing development.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking west on Lower Washington St. from the Boston border. Brookline Ave. enters between the Gulf and Esso stations.
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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]

The house was built in 1803 by Dr. William Aspinwall and later occupied by two subsequent generations of the family. It was razed at the end of 1900.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

From left to right:

• Corner of the municipal courthouse
• The former Pierce Primary School, now converted to town offices and named Holden Hall, in the rear
• Town Hall, decorated for the 1905 bicentennial
• House at 11 Holden St., still standing
• House at 5-7 Holden St., still standing. Home to the Robart brothers whose furniture business was just off screen to the right at 317 Washington St., also still standing

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Looking southwest from Sargent's Pond across Cottage St. to the Thomas Drew Cook House, 85 Cottage St.
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[Source: Digital Commonwealth]