Looking west on Beacon St. to the left and north on Harvard St. This unique and detailed photograph shows the Coolidge and Brother store, the only store over the entire length of Beacon St. in Brookline at the time. Seen from left to right:

• Large house on Corey Hill in the distance
• Hay barn and watering trough
• Coolidge and Brother store which was opened in 1857 and was now owned by Merrill V. Brown, who had worked as a clerk in the store and took it over when William D. Coolidge died in 1884.
• Homes on both sides of Harvard St., there were no other stores in Coolidge Corner yet.
• The photographer’s box on the sidewalk.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.

[Courtesy of Historic New England]