For the 1891-1892 school session the principle was Lillian M. Watton and the kindergarten teachers were Annie P. Burgess and Florence Hersey. This four-room school house opened in April 1888. It was named after J. Eliot Cabot, a Brookline architect and one-time school committee member. The school, built on land purchased from Henry M. Whitney, the developer of the Beacon Street and the West End Railway, replaced the school on Harvard and Pleasant streets that was demolished for the 1887 widening of Beacon St.

The building was no longer serving as a school by the late 1930s and became the site for the School Committee which was moved here from Holden Hall (the Town Hall annex) to make room for the Engineering Department. It was torn down in 1957 for the subsidized housing now on the site.

Page 2, plate 7277. From an album of fifty photographs of Brookline schools, classrooms, and examples of clay modeling, wood-working, and cooking. Produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

Image Courtesy the Brookline Preservation Department