Dr. William Aspinwall moved here from his former house on Aspinwall Ave.. Rear view of the house on the hill looking down toward Washington St. Front of the house is on Winthrop Rd. at the corner of Gardner Rd..The house was built in 1803 by Dr. William Aspinwall and later occupied by two subsequent generations of the family. It was razed at the end of 1900.

This school was located in a small triangle of land in Coolidge Corner formed by Beacon St., the short extension of Pleasant St. running southwest of Beacon St. and Harvard St. running southeast of Beacon St. completing the triangle. It was built shortly after the 1851 extension into Brookline of Beacon St. With the widening of Beacon St. in 1887/88 the school was demolished and the new brick Cabot School was built on nearby Marion St.

Lantern Slide Collection #241