Looking west toward Boylston St., Washington St. curves to the right by the Guild Building. In the foreground left at the intersection of Walnut St. and Washington St. is an apartment building whose right-side first floor was converted to a store front in early 1900. At the corner of the building a door was added and given the address of 122 Washington St. It opened as a third Brookline location of C. E. Riley’s cigar stores and changed to Heleotis Bros. Fruits and Ice Cream in 1904. The photo shows a banner advertising Marguerite cigars so this is most like the Riley store which also advertised itself as a waiting room for trolley riders.

Image Courtesy the Brookline Preservation Department