The work on the tunnel was completely in early 1894. Lower Washington St. going toward Boston is to the left. Note that this is one of two different views taken at the same time.
On the north side of Washington St. on the left:

• Unidentified delivery wagon labeled “B. Bancroft”
• 145 Washington St., awning of Thomas S. Brown & Co., provisions

On the south side of Washington St., from left to right:

• Trolley car on the Cypress St. line
• 106 Washington St., house of Jeremy Guilfoyle with a wagon out front
• 110 Washington St., H. G. Jordan, Coal and Wood, the office and also a sign above the alleyway leading to their coal yard at the corner with Morss Ave.
• 126 Washington St., William Frawley, custom shoemaker (note picture of boot on sign
• 126 Washington St., Luigi Barba (aka Louis Barbour and Louis Barber), fruit
• 128 Washington St., Frank T. Fay, newsdealer, cigars and tobacco
• 134 Washington St., John Barthelmes, hairdresser
• 136 Washington St., Sing Lee, laundry

Tom Condon, Sr. Civil Engineer for Brookline writes:
The work shown is part of the relocation of the outlet of the Village Brook. …(in the pile of lumber in the background you can see a piece of the curved falsework used to hold the brick arch until the cement mortar set.). Leverett Pond was created from the Muddy River marsh located just south of Washington Street by installing a stop plank manhole (in effect an adjustable height dam) in the new culvert under Washington Street. This stop plank manhole was necessary to hold back the pond since the Charles and therefore the Muddy Rivers were still tidal at that time. Presumably, Alexis French (who was both Olmsted's engineer and the Town Engineer) determined that more flow into this new pond was necessary. To provide this additional flow, the Village Brook which flows alongside what is now the MBTA "D" line was diverted into the culvert shown under construction. The culvert runs east down Washington Street, crosses Walnut Street, runs down Morss Avenue (now discontinued), across Pond Avenue and into Leverett Pond.
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William Robert Murphy Collection