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]

(ID) 162
(Slide ID) P-98-5
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

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]

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]

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]

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]

(ID) 145
(Slide ID) P-23-14
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

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]

Standing in Harvard Square looking at Kent St. From left to right:

• 11 Harvard Sq., Frank F. Seamens, Groceries. Note dated poster in the window.
• Man and unusual wagon on Kent St.
• #9 Harvard Sq., C. A. Delano, Dry Goods

(ID) 143
(Slide ID) P-7-1
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

This photo shows the final stage of the full building at 11-13 Harvard Square. On the left, with its delivery wagons parked out front, is T. H. Dyer, Provisions. On the right, at #13 Harvard Sq., is Frank F. Seamens, Groceries recently renamed to L. N. Danforth. It appears that Lucius N. Danforth, a clerk at the Dyer store for two decades and at the George Joyce store there before that, has recently taken over the Seamens store. But the Danforth store will be short-lived. The town had that side of the building removed to allow for the widening of Harvard St. and a new building would replace it in two years.

(ID) 141
(Slide ID) P-14-8
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

This is a rare photo of the Harvard Hall building just prior to its replacement after a battle with the town and the invocation of eminent domain. The town needed to widen both Washington St. and Harvard St. and was literally shaving off sections of the building which sat at the apex of the two streets. The grocer, T. H. Dyer, insisted on remaining open and the building owner, in litigation with the town, covered the reduced and now-asymmetrical building with makeshift boarding.

(ID) 140
(Slide ID) P-14-12
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

Standing on Aspinwall Ave. School St. is on the right with the houses at 16/18 School St. and 2 Prospect St. and the Pierce Grammar School are visible. Harvard Hall at 6 School St. was a large area upstairs used for parties and meetings. The stores, numbered 82-90, are on the west side of Harvard St. The only identifiable one is William Sundell, Painting & Glazing, 84 Harvard St.

(ID) 139
(Slide ID) P-8-8
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

Looking at the north side of Allerton St. Note the surveyor’s stick lying on the ground – the two men are presumably from the town engineering department. From left to right:

• 14 Allerton St. across High St.
• 28 Allerton St.
• 32 Allerton St.
• 36 Allerton St.
• 44 Allerton St.

(ID) 138
(Slide ID) P-1-1
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

Looking east from Babcock St.

(ID) 136
(Slide ID) P-195-199
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

This location was the pipe yard for the water department for many years. The rear of the Winthrop School building on Brookline Ave. is to the right.

(ID) 132
(Slide ID) P-24-17
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

(ID) 127
(Slide ID) P-24-11
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

On the right is the rear of a house set back from Harvard St. across from St. Mary's church.

(ID) 126
(Slide ID) P-24-9
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

Possibly in the Aspinwall Hill area

(ID) 124
(Slide ID) P-9-22
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

Looking north as the road approaches Boylston St. From left to right:

• Foreground left: the land of Ebenezer Warren Reed that will soon become the site of the Heath School
• 39 Eliot Crescent, on the far left; a three-story apartment building built in 1901, still standing
• Houses on Duffy Court, Eliot Crescent, and Boylston St.
• At the end of Reservoir Road at the corner of Boylston Street – the house of Ebenezer Warren Reed

(ID) 123
(Slide ID) P-9-2
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

Opened in 1901 as a replacement for the much smaller school located behind it on Prospect St. No longer standing.

(ID) 122
(Slide ID) P-25-18
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]