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Brookline Ave., 1928
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]
The Country Club
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]
Cleveland Circle Southwest, 1941
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]
Beacon St. at Tappan St., 1896
Looking west
[Source: Northeastern University]
Aerial View, circa 1958
North of Jamaica Pond

FayFoto ID: A91-0915F; URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20395792
[Source: Northeastern University]
Green Hill, Aerial View, circa 1958
Looking east on Boylston St. from the corner of Cypress St. (photo, lower left)

FayFoto ID: A91-0915F; URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20395790
[Source: Northeastern University]
Construction of the Cypress St. Bridge, 1891
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]
Brookline Bird Club Exhibition, 1914
This is an exhibition of the Brookline Bird Club and the town forestry department held at the library in April 1914.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]
43 Upland Rd.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
Lounge at the Beaconsfield Hotel, 1912
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]
Clubhouse, Chestnut Hill Country Club
Addressed as number 1023 on Boylston St. which runs right behind the clubhouse.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
Clubhouse, Chestnut Hill Country Club
Addressed as number 1023 on Boylston St. which runs right behind the clubhouse.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
112 High St.
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]
Home of Amos Lawrence, Prescott St.
Looking east on Ivy St. to the right.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
92-100 Washington St.
The final building at 104-108 Washington St. has recently been demolished and replaced by a gas station (off photo)
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
55 Lee St.
Looking west across the Brookline reservoir (drained)
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
45 Warren St., 1925
Looking northeast at the Brookline reservoir (drained) gatehouse. On the right is 45 Warren St.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
Amory Park and Cottage Farm
Looking north across Amory Park from 1236 Beacon St. (no longer standing). Background left, the rear of 200 Ivy St. is viewed and, on the right, 21 Mason St.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
Town Meeting, March 19, 1935
Held in town hall. The large posters illustrate the sites of the various proposals being voting on.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
WashingtonSq., circa 1950
Damage to the right front end of the car on the trolley tracks is noted. From right to left on the northwest corner:
  • [top row, left] Shows Ayr Rd. for the proposed zoning change that would allow stores to be erected and the existing apartment buildings torn down. The owner’s complaint was that the noise from the existing stores on the Boston side of Ayr. Rd made her apartments difficult to rent. It was voted down.
  • 1634A Beacon St. – The Studio, beauty shop.
  • 1636 Beacon St. – William Segal, realtor
  • [middle row, center] Add the extensions shown to Bonad Rd. and Russet Rd.
  • 1638 Beacon St. – Colvin’s Bakery
  • 1640 Beacon St. – The Beaconsfield, Tailor and Furrier
  • 1640A Beacon St. Barber Shop, unidentified, recently operated as the barbershop of John A. Seufert
  • 1642 Beacon St.
  • 1642A Beacon St.
  • 1644 Beacon St. – Sargent Inc., record shop
  • 1644A Beacon St.
  • 1646 Beacon St. – R & H Cleansers and Dyers
  • 1646A Beacon St. – Laundereze, laundromat which opened in November 1949
  • 1648 Beacon St. – Rex Grill

[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]
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