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High School, Manual Training School, Bath House
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The Coolidge Apartment Building
Northeast Corner Sewall Ave and Stearns Rd.
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Hotel Beaconsfield, 1731 Beacon St.
Built in 1903 by Henry Whitney. Initially a luxurious 200-room apartment hotel, it apparently fell on hard times by the 1950s and was demolished after a fire in 1966.
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Brookline Motor Hotel, 1211-1217 Beacon St.
Formerly Richmond Court Apartments
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Boy Scout Troop 4, United Parish Church, circa 1927, With Annotations
Troop 4 was affiliated with the First Parish Church and was one of a number of Boy Scout troops in Brookline. Troop 4 was largely populated at the time by boys from wealthy families.
[Source: First Parish Brookline]
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Boy Scout Troop 4, United Parish Church, circa 1927
Troop 4 was affiliated with the First Parish Church and was one of a number of Boy Scout troops in Brookline. Troop 4 was largely populated at the time by boys from wealthy families. From left to right:
Front row
- Robert Mason Whittemore
- Delano Wight
- John Moore Morse
- Robert Churchill Vose
- Richard Goodwin
- Edward Wiggin Robinson
- Charles Ogden Little
- Crocker Wight
Second row
- Henry Law Petri
- Robert Ware Bridgeman
- William Bond Wheelwright
- Richard Bent
- Richard Wentworth Pentecost
- Robert Schacht
- Seth Morton Vose
- Charles Storrow Denny
- Russell Hastings
- Unidentified
- Oliver Kennard Scott
Third row
- Richard Victor Prouty
- Irving Minot Shepard
- Andrew Marshall
- Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard
- John M. Little
- Cranford Rogers
- Unidentified
- Unidentified
- Herbert Phelps Vose
- Wendell Morse Hastings
- Unidentified
[Source: First Parish Brookline]
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Boy Scout Troop 4, United Parish Church, circa 1927 With Annotations
Troop 4 was affiliated with the First Parish Church and was one of a number of Boy Scout troops in Brookline. The troop, shown here at the church, was largely populated at the time by boys from wealthy families.
[Source: First Parish Brookline]
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Boy Scout Troop 4, United Parish Church, circa 1927
Troop 4 was affiliated with the First Parish Church and was one of a number of Boy Scout troops in Brookline. The troop, shown here at the church, was largely populated at the time by boys from wealthy families. From left to right:
Front row
- Unidentified
- Robert Mason Whittemore
- John Moore Morse
- Robert Churchill Vose
- Richard Goodwin
- Edward Wiggin Robinson
- Delano Wight
- Crocker Wight
Second row
- Robert H. Schacht
- Robert Ware Bridgeman
- Richard Bent
- Richard Wentworth Pentecost
- Seth Morton Vose
- Charles Storrow Denny
- Russell Hastings
- Henry Waite Bigelow
Third row
- Richard Victor Prouty
- Andrew Marshall
- Irving Minot Shepard
- Cranford Rogers
- Edward Fisk Andrews
- Timothy Rhodes
- Herbert Phelps Vose
- Wendell Morse Hastings
- Anthony Donald Hall
Fourth row
- Robert Hey Rawson
- Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard
- Richard Bruce Harding
[Source: First Parish Brookline]
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Reservoir Station Trolley Barn
Looking east from Chestnut Hill Ave.
[Source: Joel Shield]
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Reservoir Station Trolley Barn
Looking east from Chestnut Hill Ave.
[Source: Joel Shield]
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63 Summit Ave.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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Boylston St., 1912 (Unconfimred)
These houses are most likely on the north side of Boylston St. just west of the Village Square and are being moved back for the widening of Boylston St. Houses approved in May 1912 for relocation were numbers 75, 91, 95, 99, 107, 109 Boylston St.
(ID) 001
(Envelope ID) P-5-8
(Envelope Description) School St. ?
(Notes) Broken in two pieces; not archived
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
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Bonad Rd.
Looking north on Bonad Rd. with Walnut Hill in the distance. C & R Construction, whose equipment is viewed in the photo, won the bid to construct these sewer and drain lines in 1930. On the left side of the road, from left to right are numbers 84, 110, 114,118, 122.
(ID) 163
(Slide ID) P-105-21
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
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Police Ambulance, 1930
(ID) 162
(Slide ID) P-98-5
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
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Longwood Ave. Bridge, 1899
Looking toward Boston from Chapel St. The bridge has recently opened and replaced the old wooden bridge there.
(ID) 161
(Slide ID) P-27-11
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
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1501 Beacon St.
Standing on the south side of Beacon St. looking west. The apartment building at 108-116 Winthrop Rd. is in the upper left corner. In the distance on the right is the six-story apartment building at 1569-1571 Beacon St., still standing. In the foreground is the future location of Brandon Hall at 1501 Beacon St. The pile of debris is unexplained as there was no structure there previously.
(ID) 158
(Slide ID) P-1-4
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
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University Rd., 1912
Standing at the eastern end of University Rd. and Washington St. Looking at the rear of houses on Winthrop Rd. Construction of houses on University Rd. has not yet begun.
(ID) 157
(Slide ID) P-27-28
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
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University Rd. and Gardner Rd. Junction, 1912
2 Gardner Rd is on the right, still standing. 555 Washington St. is acorss the street, no longer standing.
(ID) 156
(Slide ID) P-27-22
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
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Police Station, Jan 31, 1919
(ID) 145
(Slide ID) P-23-14
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
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Kent St.
Looking north on Kent St. from Linden St. The entrance porch to 122 Kent St. is visible on the left. The bridge over Aspinwall is faintly visible on the right.
(ID) 144
(Slide ID) P-9-8
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
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