Jonathan Lambert Dexter worked for many years as a partner at Sands, Furber & Co., a large wholesale fruit and produce dealer in Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. His wife, Mary L. Seaverns, was the sister of Henry Seaverns of H. G. Seaverns & Co., also a wholesale fruit dealer in Faneuil Hall Market. They married in 1875 and moved in with her widowed stepmother, Lucy S. Seaverns, whose house was on Harvard St. just north of the Coolidge & Brother store. Lucy Seaverns died at the end of 1885 and the Dexters moved into their new house at 390 Harvard St., two blocks away between Williams St. and Fuller St. Mary Dexter died in 1901 and Jonathan Dexter remained in the house until his death in 1926.

Shown in the photo are Lucy Amelia Dexter (1876-1940), who married and lived for years on nearby Stetson St., and Frank Seaverns Dexter (1891-1959), who remained in the house along with his sister, Mary, until his death in 1959, both were unmarried. The house was then torn down and the property acquired by Congregation Kehillath Israel which was next door at 380 Harvard St.

He emigrated from Cork, Ireland to the United States circa 1885 and is first listed in Brookline in 1900. He initially worked as a deliveryman for the Chase Express Co. in Brookline Village and was then a chauffeur for over fifty years working into his late seventies. He lived for a number of years at 44 Brook St. side by side with his daughter’s family at number 46. After the death of his wife in 1955, he moved in with his daughter’s family at their new house at nearby 72 Toxteth St.

Morgan Bros., with nine stores in various sections of Boston, opened their first store in Brookline in Coolidge Corner in October, 1915. Two more Brookline locations were added in short order. In 1949, when the original store at 1349 Beacon St. closed, there remained five other Brookline locations for the creamery.

The new Station D at 827 Boylston St. opened December 8th, 1930. It was built to address the issue of inadequate coverage of the rapidly-growing area west and south of Chestnut Hill Ave. and replaced the old Station D. across the street at 796 Boylston St. The new station was equipped with three pieces of equipment: a new 85-foot aerial ladder truck, a new hose tender, and a rebuilt Engine #4 that had been housed in the old station across the street.

On the left is Engine #4 which was crewed by Thomas J. Burke, captain; Thomas J. Grennan, lieutenant; Alexander G. DeLorie, George H. Dunn, John J. Costello, James L. Love, Thomas J. Mahon, Robert J. O’Connor, William H. O’Connor, Michael F. Tonra, hose men.

On the right is Ladder #3 which was crewed by Patrick H. Kirrane, Richard E. O’Day, lieutenants; John L. Fay, John H. Hinchley Jr., Frank X Love, John M Mealey, John H. Mitchell, John E. Patterson, James Priestly, Michael A. Rourke, ladder men; Thomas Curry, Daniel F. Donovan, Joseph P. Harrington, Patrick J. Hogan, Francis H. Norton, hose men

Looking from Beacon St. toward Brookline. The house and barn of Michael McGrady on Reservoir Lane are visible on the left.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking northeast on Brookline Ave. from Pearl St. Just visible through the fence on the left is the building on the corner with Aspinwall Ave. Photo by Henry A. Varney, Brookline town engineer.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking at the rear of 209 Newton St. and its outbuildings center photo in the distance. House on the hill roughly near today’s Dexter School is viewed in the distance on the right.
[Source: Historic New England]

Looking southeast from the railroad tracks in the vicinity of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum. From left to right at the base of the hill in the distance is Eliot St.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking west
[Source: Northeastern University]

North of Jamaica Pond

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[Source: Northeastern University]

Looking east on Boylston St. from the corner of Cypress St. (photo, lower left)

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[Source: Northeastern University]

In the rear left is the house at 86 Cypress St. at the corner of Davis Ave. In the rear right is the factory building of the E. S. Ritchie Co. On top the bridge barely discernible is the chimney stack of a steam engine being used to mix the cement.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

This is an exhibition of the Brookline Bird Club and the town forestry department held at the library in April 1914.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Built in 1903 by Henry Whitney. Initially a luxurious 200-room apartment hotel at 1731 Beacon St., it apparently fell on hard times by the 1950s and was demolished after a fire in 1966. The photo is from a postcard mailed to a friend by Peter F. Cormier, a clerk at the hotel.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Addressed as number 1023 on Boylston St. which runs right behind the clubhouse.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Addressed as number 1023 on Boylston St. which runs right behind the clubhouse.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

The house is sandwiched between two side roads: Edgehill Rd. on the right and Cumberland Ave. on the left. The house and the stone wall shown are still standing
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Looking east on Ivy St. to the right.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]