Looking east from today’s Brookline Hills MBTA stop before the erection of the bridge over the tracks on Cypress St. in late 1891. In the center is the factory building of the E. S. Ritchie Co. which still stands today as part of a 2005 condominium project at 110 Cypress St. On the right is an apartment building likely at 124 Cypress St. followed by the rear of apartment buildings on Boylston St.

[Courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth (CC BY-NC-ND). From the Brookline Photograph Collection published by the Public Library of Brookline]