<p>The Old Barn is a historic barn off Blue Hill River Road in Canton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>Based on the construction methods used, it is estimated to have been built between 1690 and 1720, and is the oldest building on Brookwood Farm. It is currently undergoing a major restoration undertaken by the North Bennet Street School. They have removed the oldest 20 x section for major work to repair rot and insect damage. It is expected to be returned to the site in 2010 or 2011. All of the photographs here are of the portions of the barn built after the original barn.</p><br>
<p>The barn was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Old Barn on September 25, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Railway Village Historic District is a historic district encompassing a densely populated, predominantly residential, area of eastern Milton, Massachusetts. The 30 acre district lies roughly between East Milton Square and the town line with neighboring Quincy. The area&#39;s significant growth occurred after the 1826 construction of the Granite Railway, which transported stone from the nearby granite quarries to the Neponset River. This resulted in the movement to the area of stone workers and related interests. The principal thoroughfare of the district is Adams Street; the district extends along Pierce Street, Granite Place, and Washington Street, and includes properties on intervening and connecting streets.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now eastern Milton was originally part of Dorchester in early colonial days, and became part of Milton when it incorporated in 1662.</p><br>
<p>The area remained rural and agrarian in character until the early 19th century, with most of the land owned by Lancelot Pierce. Pierce built a house in 1748, which still stands on Adams Street, a road which began as a Native American trail. Development in the area was spurred in 1826 by the construction of the Granite Railway, which was built to transport stone from quarries in Quincy to the Neponset River for use in the Bunker Hill Monument. The railroad right-of-way was later taken over by the Old Colony Railroad, which operated service on it until 1940. These developments resulted in the growth of the village center at East Milton, and the residential area to its east that is the subject of this district. By 1870 there were more than 20 houses in the area, which rose to nearly 100 by the early 20th century. The latter growth was spurred in part by developers selling to people who were employed in downtown Boston, commuting to work on the train. The railroad line was shut down in 1940, and later parts were paved over for the Southeast Expressway.</p><br>
<p>The Refreshment Pavilion is a historic refreshment stand at Houghton&#39;s Pond in the Milton portion of Blue Hills Reservation, a Massachusetts state park. Built in 1920, it is one of a series of architect-designed structures built in the park by the Metropolitan District Commission. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Refreshment Pavilion is located near the northern shore of Houghtons Pond, a body of water in the southwestern part of the Blue Hills Reservation. It is set south of Hillside Street, the access road for the ponds beach area, which is located east of the pavilion. It is a single-story rectangular stone structure with a gable roof. Oculus windows are set in the gables, surrounded by louvered openings, and there are covered pergola-like porches extending from some of its sides supported by slatted supporting columns.</p><br>
<p>The Blue Hills are a range of hills located about 10 mi south of downtown Boston. For many years they were largely undeveloped, and became a popular recreational destination by the late 19th century. The Metropolitan Parks Commission, created by the state to establish a network of parks and roadways around the Greater Boston area (and a predecessor to the MDC and todays Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, or DCR), formally acquired the reservation land in the early 1890s, but did no active development of amenities and infrastructure. By 1899, the need for roadways and other features was apparent, and the MDC hired the Boston firm Stickney & Austin to design structures for the reservation. Between 1899 and 1926 Stickney and Austin designed a number of structures, seven of which survive today. The Refreshment Pavilion at Houghtons Pond is one of these, exhibiting the use of high-quality materials and design sought by the firm and the MDC.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1920 on the site of the Ralph Houghton house which was built in 1690 and demolished in 1896 to make way for the development of the Blue Hills Reservation. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Refreshment on September 25, 1980. It is still in use as a refreshment stand.</p><br>
<p>The Scott&#39;s Woods Historic District is a historic district on Hillside Street between Randolph Avenue and the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton, Massachusetts. This rural-residential area has a long history, and is named for the Scott family, who were early settlers of the area. This area preserves a concentration of agricultural and residential resources dating from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, with well-preserved houses, barns, and landscapes. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Scott&#39;s Wood area is located in southernmost central Milton, extending along Hillside Street roughly between Randolph Avenue (Massachusetts Route 28) and the border of the Blue Hills Reservation. The district covers about 122 acre of hilly terrain below the heights of the Blue Hills. The oldest house in the district, the First Period Bernard Capen House, was moved here in 1909 from Dorchester, which Milton was originally part off. Two houses built in the district in the mid-18th century survive, as do a number of 19th-century barns with relatively little modification.</p><br>
<p>The area was annexed to Milton in 1712, having originally been land owned by Boston that was supposedly settled by an otherwise undocumented Scott family. The oldest surviving house to be built in the district is that of Samuel Tucker, son of Manasseh Tucker who was an investor in the Boston property. That house, and that of Stephen Miller, son of another investor, set the pattern for rural agricultural development in the area that survived into the mid-19th century. In the late 19th century the farm properties became increasing subdivided, and eventually many were transformed into small country estates. After the First World War, the country estates began to be divided for purely residential development.</p><br>
<p>The Suffolk Resolves House, also known as the Daniel Vose House, is a historic house at 1370 Canton Avenue in Milton, Massachusetts. It has long been claimed that this building was where the Suffolk Resolves were signed on September 4, 1774. The Resolves were an important predecessor document to the 1774 Continental Association and the 1776 Declaration of Independence; however, this claim has been the subject of local controversy. The house is now owned by the Milton Historical Society and serves as its headquarters; it is occasionally open to the public. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Suffolk Resolves House is located in a residential area of southwestern Milton, on the southeast side of Canton Avenue, historically a major route connecting Milton to nearby Canton. The house is a two-story wood frame structure, with a clapboarded exterior and hip roof pierced by symmetrically placed brick chimneys. The main facade faces northwest to the street, from which the house is separated by a series of landscaped terraces. The facade is five bays wide, with sash windows placed symmetrically around a center entrance. The entrance is sheltered by a porch supported by Doric columns and topped by a dentillated triangular pediment.</p><br>
<p>Dendrochronological research on the structure of the house indicates that its oldest part, roughly the left front half, was built using timbers cut in 1763. The right side and portions of the roof have timbers cut in the 1780s. The historical record is ambiguous on whether the older portion of the house was the site of the Suffolk Resolves meeting on September 4, 1774. What is known is that the house commonly known as the Daniel Vose "mansion", burned down in 1861. This house is more likely to be a home built for Voses son, Daniel Thomas Vose, in the 1780s. This chronology is at odds with a long-held belief, maintained by the Milton Historical Society over the objections of some local figures in mid-20th century and enshrined in the National Register nomination of the 1970s, that this houses parlor was where the Suffolk Resolves were signed.</p><br>
<p>This building was threatened with demolition in 1950. Dr. James Bourne Ayer and Hannah Ayer moved it from its original location on Adams Street (where Citizens Bank now is) to its present location. They had it restored by William Morris Hunt and later gave it to the Milton Historical Society, for which it serves as headquarters.</p><br>
<p>The Society holds its meetings at the house, and occasionally opens it to the public.</p><br>
<p>The Milton Main Post Office is a historic post office building at 499 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts. Built in 1936, the building is a good example of Great Depression-era public works projects, and a fine local example of Colonial Revival architecture. The building, still active as a post office, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Milton&#39;s main post office is located on the west side of East Milton Square, overlooking the Southeast Expressway from a lot bounded on the east by Bryan Ave, the north by Adams Street, and the south by Edge Hill Road. It is a single-story structure, built out of locally quarried granitee. It is topped by a copper-clad gabled roof with stuccoed end pediments, and the building is topped by an octagonal tower with louvered sides and an ornate Colonial Revival cupola. The main facade faces roughly northeast, and is five bays wide, with a projecting center section. The main entrance is at the center, flanked by sidelight windows and topped by an eyebrow window.</p><br>
<p>The interior public lobby has terrazzo marble flooring, and white marble wainscoting, with the walls above finished in plaster. The ceiling is ringed by an ornamental plaster cornice. One wall is decorated by a mural depicting scenes of the American Revolution painted by Elizabeth Tracy and funded by the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture, a Depression-era jobs program.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1936-1937 with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA), to a design from the office of Treasury architect Louis A. Simon. The PWA building programs emphasized speed of construction, but construction of this building was delayed by a fire in a warehouse holding building supplies and by backordered equipment. It is not known if the stone used in its construction was sourced within the town of Milton, whose granite quarries were in decline at the time.</p><br>
<p>The Arcade Building is a historic commercial building at 314–320A Harvard Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. Built in 1926, it is a two-story cast stone structure, with an interior arcade lined by small shops. It is the only arcaded commercial building in Brookline. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Arcade Building is located on the south side of Harvard Street, a major north–south route through eastern Brookline. It is on the west side of Coolidge Corner, one of the towns major retail areas. It is a two-story commercial structure, built out of concrete and cast stone. The front facade is topped by a precast concrete frieze, with Gothic spires above at the bounds of the buildings five bays. The interior of the building consists of a long two-story skylit atrium that is flanked by small shops on two levels. The interior retains many of its original features and fixtures.</p><br>
<p>The Arcade was built in 1926 by a local real estate developer named Johnson, to a design by George N. Jacobs. It is the only building of its type in Brookline, reminiscent of (but on a much smaller scale than) the Westminster Arcade, the nation&#39;s first enclosed shopping arcade, in Providence, Rhode Island. At the time of its construction, that part of Harvard Avenue was undergoing a rapid transition from a predominantly residential area to a more densely-built commercial area. The building continues to house retail spaces and professional offices.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin White House is a historic house at 203 Heath Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. Built in 1790, this two-story wood-frame house is one of the oldest on Heath Street. It has been moved twice: once when the Cabot family established a large estate in the area, at which time they moved it back from Heath Street and added a barn, and again in 1947, when the barn was demolished and the house moved onto its foundation. Much of the interior finish was lost during interior remodelling in the 1940s, but the exterior has retained much of its 18th and 19th century trim.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Bertrand was a steamboat which sank on April 1, 1865, while carrying cargo up the Missouri River to Virginia City, Montana Territory, after hitting a snag in the river north of Omaha, Nebraska. Half of its cargo was recovered during an excavation in 1968, more than 100 years later. Today, the artifacts are displayed in a museum at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge near Missouri Valley, Iowa. The display makes up the largest intact collection of Civil War-era artifacts in the United States, and are an invaluable time capsule of everyday life during that period.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Launch and voyages</h3><br>
<p>The Bertrand was launched in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1864. It measured 161 ft long, with a beam of 32 ft; its total burden was reported as 251 tons. A shallow-draft vessel, it drew only 18 in when light, and perhaps no more than twice that when loaded. Sources differ regarding the ownership of the Bertrand, but it probably belonged to the Montana and Idaho Transportation Line, which was based in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was owned in part by John J. Roe of St. Louis.</p><br>
<p>The Bertrand was part of an extensive water-based regional trading system that developed during the mid to late 19th century. Only since 1859 had steamboats been traveling up the Missouri River to Fort Benton, Montana Territory. When gold was found at the Alder Gulch claim in Montana in 1863, streams of hopeful prospectors migrated to the area from other states, creating one of the most prosperous frontier cities, Virginia City. Within a year of the find, more than 35,000 people were living within a 10-mile radius of the discovery site.</p><br>
<p>J.J. Roe and his partners entered the shipping business in 1864, creating a line to ship goods up the Missouri River to the frontier of the Montana Territory. J.J. Roe & Co. also invested in the Diamond R Transportation Co., which established a system of ox trains to bring goods to more remote locations some hundreds of miles from the river. Prospectors and settlers created the demand for the goods that the steamboats were able to bring up the Missouri. By 1867, there were 113 different businesses registered in Virginia City to provide goods and services. Soon, the Alder Gulch Gold Camp grew into one of the largest frontier gold mining towns. It would prove one of the largest gold payoffs from the Rocky Mountains. The Missouri River was a major transportation route that sustained these Montana gold mines and the budding cities.</p><br>
<p>River routes were also integral to the fur trade between St. Louis and the Indian country that provided the furs, which had been going on since the early 19th century. J.J. Roe & Co. consistently took goods upriver and brought furs and other extractive materials back down the river. On one trip in 1865, the ship unloaded in St. Louis with 260 packs of furs.</p><br>
<p>The trip from St. Louis to the new Montana Territory took about two months and was often dangerous, due to the remoteness of the region and the possibility of encounters with hostile Indian tribes, but the profits were well worth the hardships. J.J. Roe entered the market with other merchants, businessmen, and salesmen in this period, all earning their profits from supplying the demands of the settlers for consumable goods. This was an incredibly profitable economic niche on the frontier.</p><br>
<h3>Sinking</h3><br>
<p>On April 1, 1865, under the command of Captain James Yore, the steamboat Bertrand struck a submerged log in the Desoto Bend of the Missouri River, about 25 mi upstream of Omaha, Nebraska. In less than ten minutes, it sank in 12 ft of water. No people died, but almost the entire cargo was lost; the estimated combined value of the vessel and cargo was $100,000.</p><br>
<h3>Rediscovery</h3><br>
<p>More than 100 years later, in 1968, private salvagers Sam Corbino and Jesse Pursell discovered the wreck in the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, managed by the USA Department of the Interior. Since the boat was found on government property, the men had to comply with the Antiquities Act of 1906, by which they relinquished all of the recovered artifacts to the USA Fish and Wildlife Service for permanent preservation. More than 10,000 cubic feet of cargo and over 500,000 artifacts were recovered from the hold during the excavation. The artifacts represent a time capsule of life in 1865 and are now on display at the museum of the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge near Missouri Valley, Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>Excavated artifacts</h2><br>
<p>The cargo found on the excavated Bertrand provides a unique glimpse into the material life of Virginia City, Montana Territory. The steamboat was full of clothing, tools, food, and various consumer items on their way upriver. The ships cargo amounted to roughly 283 cubic meters. The collection includes dried and salted beef, mutton, and pork; oysters; pepper sauce; strawberries, peaches, and peanuts; mustard from France; many bottles of whiskey including bourbon; brandy and brandied cherries; and medicine bottles. There were over 3,000 textiles and clothing items, including gloves, hats, trousers, and 137 mens coats in seven different styles. Household goods included mirrors, clocks, and silverware. There were also various building supplies for the growing town. The largest consignment of the goods was bound for the Vivian and Simpson retailer in Virginia City. They would have also been sold from log cabin stores in the surrounding towns, including that of Frank Worden, the founder of Missoula.</p><br>
<p>Many of the goods were beyond the expectations of a primitive mining town. The ship also carried everything necessary to mine the Montana claims, including blasting powder, pickaxes, and shovels. All the goods were fully insured, and the insurance company ultimately reimbursed the merchants for their losses. Far from being isolated from the rest of the country and its consumption and fashion habits, men and women on the frontier appear to have been relatively integrated and informed. The artifacts from the Bertrand represent evidence of what kinds of goods flowed from St. Louis to the Montana Territory during this important period of American state formation. More generally, water travel and the development of the steamboat played a major role in the settlement and development of America.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, samples of canned food from the wreck, including brandied peaches, oysters, plum tomatoes, honey, and mixed vegetables, were tested by the National Food Processors Association. Although their appearance, smell, and vitamin content had deteriorated, there was no trace of microbial growth and the food was determined to be still safe to eat.</p><br>
<p>The Byers–Evans House is a historic house museum in Denver, Colorado, United States. It is the home of History Colorados Center for Colorado Womens History. It has also been known as Evans House and is a Denver Landmark under that name. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building in the Civic Center Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Byers–Evans house was built in 1883 by William Byers, the founder of the Rocky Mountain News and was sold to William Gray Evans in 1889. It is an Italianate style house which had several additions made to it over the years. William Evans lived in the home with his wife Cornelia Lunt Gray and their four children, John, Josephine, Margaret and Katharine. William&#39;s mother, Margaret Patten Gray Evans, former first lady of Colorado, moved into the home in 1900 with her unmarried daughter, Anne Evans. Members of the Evans family continued to live in the home until 1981.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>It was listed again on the National Register in 1974 as a contributing building within the Civic Center Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The house was donated to History Colorado in 1981, along with the entire contents of the house. The house has been restored to the 1912–1924 period and includes approximately 90% of the original furniture, glassware, china, and other household items belonging to the Evans family.</p><br>
<h2>Center for Colorado Women&#39;s History</h2><br>
<p>The Center for Colorado Women&#39;s History is located in Denver, Colorado, at 1310 Bannock St, directly behind the Denver Art Museum. The Center focuses on scholarship, research, lectures, tours and exhibits that expand the understanding and collective memory of the history of women in Colorado. Guided house tours are offered; portions of the museum may not be viewed without a tour. The museum is administered by History Colorado.</p><br>
<p>Westhampton Beach Post Office, the USA post office in Westhampton Beach, New York, is located at 170 Main Street between Mill Road and Beach Road. It serves the ZIP code 11978, and is southeast of the Westhampton Post Office on Mill Road.</p><br>
<p>Westhampton Beach Post Office was designed by Louis A. Simon in conjunction with the United States Treasury Department. Simon also designed the Post Office buildings in Bay Shore, Northport, and Riverhead. His public buildings were in the Colonial Revival style.</p><br>
<h2>The Section</h2><br>
<p>A large mural on one wall was typical of work commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts, which Simon was in charge of as supervising architect under the control of the United States Department of the Treasury. As a New Deal office from its origination in 1933 it employed out of work artists to produce art for public buildings. It was referred to simply as “the Section.” Many of the New Deal organizations roles was to create jobs for the many unemployed of the depression, in this case, artists. It was given the task of placing works of art in public places, such as post offices and libraries, for the appreciation of art. Simon was removed from the position in 1939 and the production of public art was removed from the treasury department in 1943. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989,</p><br>
<p>Northport Post Office, the USA post office in Northport, New York, is located at 244 Main Street in Northport, New York. It serves the ZIP code 11768, which also includes Asharoken, Eaton&#39;s Neck, Vernon Valley, Middleville, and Fort Salonga.</p><br>
<p>Northport Post Office was designed by Louis A. Simon in conjunction with the United States Treasury Department. Simon also designed the Post Office buildings in Bay Shore, Riverhead, and Westhampton Beach. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989,</p><br>
<p>The Beacon Street Historic District is a historic district running most of the length of Beacon Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, roughly from Saint Mary&#39;s Road, near Kenmore Square, to Ayr Road near Cleveland Circle. It includes a small number of properties on adjacent streets, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Beacon Street in Brookline was built in 1850-51 as an extension of the road over the mill dam that was constructed across the Back Bay of Boston, running from the end of Mill Dam Road to Cleveland Circle. The area remained predominantly rural, with small clusters of housing in the Cleveland Circle and Harvard Street areas. In the 1880s industrialist Henry Whitney, a Brookline resident, conceived of the Beacon Street corridor as a broad boulevard, lined with housing, with a streetcar line running down the middle, and began purchasing land. He retained Frederick Law Olmsted and John Charles Olmsted, noted landscape designers who were also Brookline residents, to design the boulevard. When the streetcar line (now the MBTA Green Line "C" branch) went into service in December 1888, it was the second non-experimental electric streecar service in the nation, after the Union Passenger Railway of Richmond, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Most of Beacon Street is lined with multi-story residential housing, and is still roughly in the form envisioned by Whitney and the Olmsteds. Clusters of commercial development have supplanted some of the housing in the Coolidge Corner, Washington Square, and Cleveland Circle areas, but the roughly 2 mi stretch of road largely retains its residential character.</p><br>
<p>The Beaconsfield Terraces Historic District is a residential historic district at 11–25, 33–43, and 44–55 Garrison Rd. and 316–326, 332–344, and 350–366 Tappan Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. It encompasses a collection of architecturally distinctive row houses that were built between 1889 and 1892 by a single developer, and represent a unique early success in condominium ownership. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Beaconsfield Terraces are roughly centered on the junction of Tappan Street and Garrison Road, a short way west of Brookline&#39;s Washington Square. Three of the six buildings line the west side of Tappan Street, while the other three line the north side of Garrison Road. A seventh building, not included in this historic district, fronts on Beacon Street, and is included in the Beacon Street Historic District. The oldest of the buildings, 350–366 Tappan, was built in 1889 out of yellow brick and stone, and has Chateauesque styling, a style used in four of the six buildings. These buildings feature steeply-pitched roofs, round-arch entranceways, corbelled brickwork decoration, gabled wall dormers, and polygonal window bays. One building has a distinctively Flemish character, with buttressed wall gables, and limestone pinnacles. The last two buildings are Georgian Revival, with red brick exterior and entrance porticoes with Corinthian columns.</p><br>
<p>The Terraces were designed by the Boston architectural firm of Fehmer & Page for the developer, Eugene Knapp, who had seen developments involving condominium ownership in England, and sought to recreate them here. He purchased land from the Henry Whitney (the principal developer of Beacon Street, and oversaw this development, which included (in addition to the row houses), a park, stables, casino (playhouse), and playground. Of his original development, only the row houses survive, the remaining land having been redeveloped into other uses. The development was an immediate success, attracting some high-profile residents, including William Shreve of Shreve, Crump & Low. Knapp was financially overextended by the development, and eventually sold his interest back to Whitney.</p><br>
<p>The William Ingersoll Bowditch House is a historic house at 9 Toxteth Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is a good example of vernacular Gothic and Greek Revival architecture, built c. 1844-45 as part of one of Brookline&#39;s earliest formal residential subdivisions. William Bowditch, the first owner, was an active abolitionist who sheltered fugitive slaves as part of the Underground Railroad, and was a member of the Boston Vigilance Committee. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The William Ingersoll Bowditch House stands in a residential area northeast of the commercial area of Brookline Village, on the east side of Toxteth Street near its southern end. It faces west toward Linden Square. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with an L-shaped plan, cross-gabled roof, and clapboarded exterior. A single-story shed-roof porch is located in the crook of the L. The windows under the porch are of full length, and the main entrance, also under the porch, has flanking full-length sidelight windows. Window openings are framed by drip moulding, and the roof is adorned with dormers that have steeply pitched roofs in the Gothic style.</p><br>
<p>The Linden Square area was subdivided in the 1840s by Thomas Aspinwall Davis on family farmland, its layout designed by Alexander Wadsworth. This house was built on land from several parcels in the subdivision in 1844-45 for William Ingersoll Bowditch, who lived here until 1867. Bowditch was active in local politics, serving on the board of selectmen and as moderator of the town meeting. Before the American Civil War he was an ardent abolitionist, serving on the Boston Vigilance Committee, which assisted fugitive slaves. Bowditch is documented to have sheltered at least one fugitive couple, and also hosted the son of John Brown.</p><br>
<p>The Brookline Town Green Historic District encompasses the historic colonial heart of the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. Centered on a stretch of Walnut Street between Warren and Chestnut Streets, this area is where the town&#39;s first colonial meeting house and cemetery were laid out, and was its center of civic life until the early 19th century. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now the town of Brookline was known as Muddy River in the 17th century, after a crossing point of the eponymous river. The town was incorporated in 1705, and the site for its first meeting house and cemetery were chosen near what was at the time its geographic center. Brookline is unusual in Massachusetts in that its first town hall still survives: it is a stone structure built in 1825, now serving as the parish hall of the First Parish Church on Walnut Street. The towns Old Burying Ground, located at Walnut and Chestnut Streets, was also laid out at that time. When the Worcester Turnpike (now Massachusetts Route 9) opened in the early 19th century, the towns civic focus moved to Brookline Village. Later in the 19th century, the surrounding farmland was subdivided and fashionable residences were built.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is bounded on the east by Kennard Street, Chestnut Place, and a portion of Chestnut Street, and on the south by Codman Place, part of Walnut Street, Welch Road, and Warren Street. The western boundary is part of Lee Street between Warren and Dudley Streets, and the northern border skirts the southern edge of Reservoir Park and then runs along Massachusetts Route 9. Notable residential properties include the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. The district abuts the Green Hill Historic District to the south and east.</p><br>
<p>Brookline Village is one of the major commercial and retail centers of the town of Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Located just north of Massachusetts Route 9 and west of the Muddy River, it is the historic center of the town and includes its major civic buildings, including town hall and the public library. The commercial spine of the village, extending along Washington Street from Route 9 to the library, is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Brookline Village Commercial District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Brookline Village was the first significant site, known as Muddy River, of colonial settlement in what is now Brookline, due to the crossing of the Muddy River, which provided overland access between Boston and Cambridge (then little more than a village at what is now Harvard Square). The village grew from this beginning to become Brookline&#39;s first major economic center. In the 19th century commercial activity was concentrated on Boylston, Washington, and Harvard Streets, and grew with the construction of what is now Brookline Avenue, and the arrival of the rail line that now serves the MBTA.</p><br>
<p>Brookline Village was once known as Punch Bowl Village, named after the Punch Bowl Tavern, and for a time was part of Roxbury.</p><br>
<h2>Public transportation</h2><br>
<p>Brookline Village is served by the MBTAs Green Line D-train at the Brookline Village station, with service to downtown Boston. The area is also served by the MBTAs bus service.</p><br>
<p>The Building at 30–34 Station Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, is a historic mixed-use residential/commercial building. It was designed by architects Winslow & Wetherell with elements of Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival style, and was completed in 1893. It is one of the first examples in Brookline of a mixed-use building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Station Street is a short commercial street in Brookline Village, paralleling the tracks of the MBTA Green Line D branch between Washington and Kent Streets. 30–34 Station Street is on north side, roughly midway on the block and opposite the Brookline Village station. It is a four-story building, built out of brick and covered by a flat roof. The ground floor houses four storefronts articulated by cast iron columns, and the upper floors have eight bays, four of which consist of projecting polygonal bays. It has a deep bracketed cornice, and a band of dentil brickwork between the first and second floors. The building, then as now, housed stores on the first floor and residences above. Since 1974, it has housed Puppet Showplace Theater, the only theater dedicated to the art of puppetry in the Boston area and one of fewer than 50 puppet theaters in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Winslow & Wetherell, a Boston architectural firm, and completed in 1893 for Arthur Cobb, a Boston merchant and real estate developer. Cobb&#39;s other Brookline properties included a stone rowhouse on Walnut Street and a second commercial block with six storefronts on Station Street.</p><br>
<p>The Lewis Cabot Estate was a historic estate at Warren and Heath Streets in Brookline, Massachusetts. The estate, developed in 1894, was one of few surviving turn-of-the-century properties of the Boston Brahmin Cabot family, and a prominent local example of Jacobethan architecture with landscaping by Frederick Law Olmsted. The remnant portion of the estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985; the main house has since been demolished.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lewis Cabot Estate was located in the suburban residential area of southern Brookline, at the southwest corner of Heath and Warren Streets, and originally consisted of more than 30 acre of land. The estate included a large 39-room mansion house, a carriage house, and a separate servants quarters. The house had elaborate Jacobethan style, including Flemish curved gables with bargeboard, half-timbered stucco sections, and a wrought iron porte-cochere.</p><br>
<p>The main house was built in 1895 by Lewis Cabot, son of Samuel and Eliza (Perkins) Cabot, on land he had bought in 1881. The house was designed by Cabot in collaboration with R. Clipston Sturgis. The estate was landscaped by the Olmsted Brothers firm, whose offices were nearby. Henry G. Lapham, who acquired the estate in 1914 after Cabot&#39;s death, subdivided the grounds, but retained the main house and 12 acre. His daughter sold the house in 1942 to the Discalced Carmelite Fathers. The property was listed on the National Register in 1985.</p><br>
<p>In 1989, the property was purchased by next-door neighbors Mitch Kapor and Ellen Poss to prevent from having it bought by an institution. However, they were unable to find a buyer for it, and thus filed a demolition permit for the estate in July 1994. It was approved and the estate was demolished on August 21, 1995, after a delay.</p><br>
<p>The Candler Cottage is a historic house at 447 Washington Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. Built about 1850, it is one of the town&#39;s few examples of Gothic Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The Candler Cottage is located northwest of Brookline Village, on the east side of Washington Street near its junction with Greenough Street. It is set back from the street on a fenced lot surrounded by large multiunit residential buildings. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and clapboard siding. It has two gabled projecting sections flanking a central entrance sheltered by a hip-roofed porch. The gables have Gothic bargeboard decoration with drop pendants, and there are finials on the roof. The porch is supported by bracketed posts, with Chippendale-style Chinese screens between some of them. The front porch is probably a later addition, and the back of the house shows evidence of reconstruction after a fire.</p><br>
<p>The cottage was built c. 1850, for Mrs. John Candler, who moved to Brookline with her two sons in 1849 after her husband died. Both sons became merchants operating in Boston; John was also politically active, serving in the state legislature and several terms in the United States Congress. The house is one of a small number of Gothic Revival cottages in Brookline.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac Child House is a historic house at 209 Newton Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. With a documented history dating to the 1790s, it is one of Brookline&#39;s few surviving 18th-century houses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The Isaac Child House is located the suburban residential portion of southern Brookline, at the northwest corner of Newton and Clyde Streets. Its lot of over 3 acre, surrounded on two sides by The Country Club, has been subdivided and includes three other houses. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof that has clipped corners. A transverse two-story ell projects to the north (rear), with a single-story ell continuing beyond that.</p><br>
<p>It is unclear exactly when this house was built; it contains beams that may have been reused from an early 18th century house that was probably in this site, but there is no documentary record of a house here until the 1790s. The land has been in ownership since the mid 17th century, when it belonged to Griffin Bowen. It is surmised that Isaac Child, his grandson, may have built the oldest portion of this house as early as 1714. Its upper floors include heavy timber framing, wide wooden floorboards, and batten doors with strap hinges, all characteristic of First Period construction. The house was extensively altered in the 1870s, literally raising up the old structure and building a new first floor underneath. It has seen only relatively modest alterations since then.</p><br>
<p>The Timothy Corey House No. 1 is a historic house at 808 Washington Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. Built in 1806, it is a good example of vernacular Federal architecture, and was home for over a century to members of one of the town&#39;s most prominent early families. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The Timothy Corey House No. 1 is located in Brookline&#39;s Corey Hill neighborhood, on the south side of Washington Street just west of its junction with Downing Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure with a side-gable roof and clapboarded exterior, set back from the road on a rise with a low stone retaining wall at the sidewalk. It is five bays wide and two deep. A single-story open porch extends across the front, which was probably added c. 1920, with a covered portico above the center entrance.</p><br>
<p>This house was built c. 1806 for Deacon Timothy Corey, cofounder of the first Baptist Church in Brookline. The Corey family were prominent landowners in the area, for whom Corey Hill is named. The family had owned land in this area since the 1760s, and ran a successful farm and orchard. The house passed out of the family in 1919, when Timothy Coreys spinster daughter Abie willed it to a local church. It is one of the towns few reminders of a once agrarian past.</p><br>
<p>The Timothy Corey House No. 2 is a historic house at 786–788 Washington Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. Built in 1843, it is one of Brooklines few stone houses. It is a vernacular Greek Revival in style, and was home to members of one of the towns most prominent early families. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The Timothy Corey House No. 2 stands in Brookline&#39;s residential Corey Hill neighborhood, on the south side of Washington Street at its southeast corner with Downing Street. It is a -story structure, built out of fieldstone and covered by a gabled roof. The gable ends, also finished in stone, are fully pedimented, and the roof is pierced by two interior chimneys. It has a five-bay front facade, with a center entrance sheltered by a 20th-century portico.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1843 for Deacon Timothy Corey; his first house stands nearby at 808 Washington Street. The house is locally distinctive for its construction material, since stone has historically been rarely used in house construction in the area. Stylistically it is a vernacular interpretation of the Greek Revival. The house was built on land that was in the Corey familys hands since the 1760s, and was supposedly built on the site of the house built by Timothy Coreys father.</p><br>
<p>The Cottage Farm Historic District is a residential area in eastern Brookline, Massachusetts, United States, known for its association with industrialist Amos Adams Lawrence . Laid out in the 1850s and centered around the junction of Essex and Ivy Streets, it features high-quality housing on large lots, built between the 1850s and 1910s. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
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<p>The area that is now Cottage Farm was, in the 17th century, part of a large meadowland owned by jurist Samuel Sewall, bounded on the north by the Charles River and the south by the Muddy River, west of the latter&#39;s mouth. In the early 19th century, this property was acquired by David Sears, who built a house in the Cottage Farm area in 1844 for his son Frederick. Amos Lawrence acquired the Cottage Farm tract from Sears in 1850, built a house for his family in 1851, and began subdividing and building out the property. Three of the early houses, including that of Lawrence, are notable English Gothic Revival stone buildings, including one designed by architect George Minot Dexter as his own home. Later houses were built in popular architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is bounded on the north by Dummer and Mountfort Streets, on the west by Amory Street, on the south by Beacon Street, and on the east by St. Marys Street. The district excludes properties on the latter two roads. The southwestern portion of this area is mainly openspace, with a playground and conservation area surrounding Halls Pond. There are 75 historically significant buildings on 67 acre. Most of them are residential, with a shared setting and scale. Some are institutional buildings, including those of the New England Hebrew Academy, but even these are not out of scale with the residences.</p><br>
<p>Much of the district was saved from demolition by governor Francis Sargent&#39;s 1970 moratorium on all highway construction inside Route 128, as it sat directly in the path of one of the highways cancelled by the moratorium, the Inner Belt Expressway.</p><br>
<p>The Cypress–Emerson Historic District encompasses a residential area on the west side of Brookline Village in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Centered on Waverly and Cypress Streets, and including Emerson Park, this area was developed in the post-Civil War era, its growth matching that of the commercial areas of the village. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>Brookline Village, originally known as "Muddy River" in colonial days, developed in the mid-19th century into the town&#39;s main commercial center. The area on the east side of Harvard Street commercial district was developed beginning in the 1840s by Thomas Aspinwall Davis, but the area to the west remained mainly farmland until after the Civil War. Cypress Street, an early road dating to the early 18th century, was widened in 1856, and the stretch between Davis Avenue and Washington Street was lined with houses in the 1880s, seven built by a single developer and reflecting similar Queen Anne and Second Empire styling. Waverly Street and Emerston Street were also developed in the 1870s and 1880s, on land belonging to Moses Jones and Elijah Emerson. Houses belonging to the Emerson family house original stood on the land that is now Emerson Park; they were moved to 72 Davis Avenue and 74 White Place after his heirs sold the town the land for the park.</p><br>
<p>The historic district consists of a section of Cypress Street roughly between Davis Avenue and Waverly Street, and a section of Waverly Street between Cypress and Davis, including Emerson Street and the Emerson Gardens park. Notable residences in the district include 109-111 Davis Avenue, which was the home of Charles Hercules Rutan, one of the principals of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge; Rutan designed this house as well as two others on nearby Elm Street. The oldest house in the district, which predates its subdivision, is the 1827 Greek Revival house at 60 Waverly Street.</p><br>
<p>The Robert S. Davis House is a historic house at 50 Stanton Road in Brookline, Massachusetts. Built about 1859 for the scion of a locally prominent family, it is one of the town&#39;s best-preserved examples of Italianate architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The Robert S. Davis House is located in a residential area between Brookline Village and the town high school, at the southeast corner of Stanton and Greenough Streets. It is a -story wood-frame house, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof, twin interior chimneys, and a cupola. It has well-preserved Italianate styling, including corner quoins, deep eaves with dentil moulding and paired brackets, heavily capped windows on the first floor, and a central gable on the main facade.</p><br>
<p>The land on which this house was built belonged to Robert Sharp Davis, Sr. a descendant of Ebenezer Davis, who owned land in Brookline since the mid-18th century. It was built for Davis son, also named Robert Sharp Davis, and is one of four similar Italianate houses in the immediate area. It is particularly rare as a well-preserved example of the classic Italianate box-like house with a central gable; most of the towns other Italianate houses outside this grouping are L-shaped in layout. The elder Davis&#39; brother was Thomas Aspinwall Davis, who owned land on the other side of Brookline Village, and served as Mayor of Boston.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Devotion House is a historic house at 347 Harvard Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Built about 1745, it is one of the town&#39;s few surviving 18th-century structures, and is of those the best preserved. The house is owned by the town and administered by the Brookline Historical Society as a historic house museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The building is also the headquarters of the Brookline Historical Society.</p><br>
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<p>The Edward Devotion House is located on the north side of Harvard Street, a major north–south roadway dating back to early colonial days. It is set west of Coolidge Corner, one of Brookline&#39;s major commercial centers, and is nearly surrounded by the Florida Ruffin Ridley School, a public elementary school formerly named for Devotion. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a gambrel roof that is extended at the rear by a leanto section, which extends beyond the left facade in a "Beverly jog". It has a brick central chimney, and entrances in the left bay of the main facade and in the jog. The main facade entrance is flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature and triangular pediment.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1745 by Solomon Hill on land he had purchased from Edward Devotion, Jr., that had been in his family since at least 1645.</p><br>
<p>The house has been maintained by the Brookline Historical Society since its founding in 1901, and now displays objects of Brookline history and the Devotion family.</p><br>
<p>The Alfred Douglass House was a historic house at 76 Fernwood Road in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. It was built in 1910 as servant quarters for the Fernwood estate of Alfred Douglass. It was a prominent surviving example of Jacobethan architecture in Brookline, and an unusual surviving outbuilding from one of the town&#39;s early 20th century country estates. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It has since been demolished and replaced by new construction.</p><br>
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<p>The Alfred Douglass House stood in southern Brookline&#39;s Buttonwood Village area, in the northwest corner of the former Fernwood estate. The estate has been subdivided, and this house would have been accessed via the main drive through the former estate (now Fernwood Road), and was set near the northwest corner of the property. It was a -story wood-frame structure, with a stuccoed and half-timbered exterior. Its front facade was characterized by three large gables, decorated with Gothic bargeboard, finials and drops, and had a main entrance under a gabled hood with large brackets.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Charles Patch, and built in 1910 for Alfred Douglass, a retired New York merchant. Douglass had purchased the country estate from Caroline and William Gardiner; she was the daughter of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, whose estate was next door. This house served as the servant quarters for his Fernwood estate house. It was enlarged in 1930 by Sidney W. Winslow Jr and converted from a duplex to a single family residence. His son lived there for several years.</p><br>
<p>The Dutch House is a historic multi-unit residential building at 20 Netherlands Road in Brookline, Massachusetts. This four-story brick building was originally built as an exhibition hall at the 1893 Worlds Fair in Chicago, where it served as the Dutch Cocoa House. It is a close copy of the Franeker City Hall in Franeker, Netherlands. The door frame, embellished with stone animals, is a replica of the Enkhuizen Orphanage. The buildings interior is highly ornate, with massive ceiling beams and Flemish wooden panels. The original dining room included classic blue and white Delftware tiles, some more than 300 years old. The exterior has a high mansard roof that extends over two floors, and has stepped gables. The windows include more than 12,000 individual lights of leaded green glass.</p><br>
<p>The building was erected at the World&#39;s Fair by the Van Houten Cocoa Company, and was one of the few privately built fair buildings to win a medal. After the fair ended, the building was purchased by Brookline resident Charles Brooks Appleton, who had seen it there. The building was dismantled brick by brick and reconstructed at its present location, although some of its brickwork was covered by cement in imitation of stonework. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Netherlands Road was named in honor of the house. Because it was built by the Netherlands and is a copy of a Dutch building, it is considered one of the finest examples of Dutch High Renaissance styling in the nation.</p><br>
<p>The General Simon Elliot House was a historic house at 61 Heath Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. Built in 1824, it was one of the town&#39;s oldest examples of Greek Revival architecture, owned by several prominent residents. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The General Simon Elliott House was located on a residential street in Brookline&#39;s Woodland-Heath area, at the western corner of Heath Street and Reservoir Road. A low stone wall ran along the street-facing edges of the property. The core of the house was a -story wood frame Greek Revival cottage, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Although the modern main entrance was on the left side as seen from the street, the original main entrance was on the street-facing south facade, sheltered by a single-story Greek Revival porch. The current main entrance was at the center of the left facade, sheltered by a rectangular Colonial Revival portico. Stylistic alterations to the exterior included Gothic-arched details, steeply pitched gabled dormers, and Colonial Revival window framing.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1824 by General Simon Elliot (1762–1832), a descendant of Scottish immigrants, who served in the American Revolutionary War. Elliot was a prominent local merchant as well as a mill and factory owner, who later served as a Major General in the Massachusetts Militia. Following the revolution, on 13 December 1786, he was appointed by Gov. James Bowdoin as an adjutant in the militia with the rank of captain under the command of General Benjamin Lincoln to put down Shays&#39; Rebellion. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in 1798 when making recommendations on Army appointments. The property was owned by Rosemary Shaw Blake from 1949 until her death in 2021, aged 103, when it was bought by a developer and demolished in late 2023.</p><br>
<p>It was the oldest Greek Revival house in Brookline until it was demolished.</p><br>
<p>Fernwood is a historic estate house at 155 Clyde Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1909, it is a distinctive example of Jacobethan architecture, and one of a few surviving country estate houses of the early 20th century in the town. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The Fernwood main house is located in southern Brookline&#39;s Buttonwood Village area, in the northeastern part of the former Fernwood estate. The estate has been subdivided, and this house is accessed via the main drive through the former estate (now Fernwood Road). It is a -story masonry structure, with brick walls and limestone trim. It has bands of sash windows with rectangular lights, parapeted gables that are steeply pitched, and round-arch doorways. The interior of the house is framed with steel beams, and contains no wood finishes.</p><br>
<p>The land of the Fernwood estate was owned in the late 19th century by Thomas Handasyd Perkins, whose own estate was next door. This land he gave to his daughter Caroline and son-in-law William Gardiner. It was purchased in the early 20th century by Alfred Douglass, a retired New York merchant, who tore down the existing house and had Fernwood built. The estate house was designed by Charles Patch, and the landscaping was done to a plan by the Olmsted Brothers. The houses Jacobethan or Tudor Revival style was quite popular at the time. Douglass only briefly lived on the estate, forced to sell in the 1910s by financial reverses. The Fernwood estate was subdivided later in the 20th century, including splitting off the servants quarters.</p><br>
<p>Fire Station No. 7, also known as the Washington Square Station, is a historic fire station at 665 Washington Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. Built in 1898, it is an architecturally eclectic mix of Dutch and Renaissance Revival styles. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It presently houses Engine 3 and a paramedic ambulance.</p><br>
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<p>Fire Station No. 7 is located near the commercial village center of Washington Square, on the north side of Washington Street roughly midway between Beacon and Fairbanks Streets. It is a -story masonry structure, built out of brick with stone trim. Its distinctive facade features include a Dutch Revival stepped gable, window and doorway arches with alternating stone and brick voussoirs, and a square Italianate hose drying tower. It has three equipment bays, two of which retain their original arched tops, while that on the left has been squared to admit larger modern equipment.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Boston architect and Brookline native G. Fred Crosby, and went into service in 1898. It was described at the time as being state of the art, and is the only one of the town&#39;s fire houses that has Dutch Revival features. Its original wooden doors were replaced in 1947, and the left equipment bay entrance was enlarged in 1951.</p><br>
<p>The Fisher Hill Historic District encompasses a residential area in central Brookline, Massachusetts. The area was subdivided and built out beginning in the 1880s, with landscaping design by Frederick Law Olmsted and John Charles Olmsted. The district is bounded on the west by Chestnut Hill Avenue, Baxter Road, and Channing Road, and on the south by Massachusetts Route 9. Its eastern boundary runs along Buckminster Street to Dean Road, joining the northern boundary of Clinton Road, running between Dean Road and Chestnut Hill Avenue. Prior to its development in the 1880s, Fisher Hill had a relatively small number of landowners. Some of them banded together, hiring the Olmsteds to design a subdivision plan for the entire district. Lots were sold to wealthy individuals, who built fashionable houses, often designed by architects. In 1914 a restrictive covenant was entered into by a significant number of property owners, restricting their properties to strictly single-family residential uses.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Fisher Hill Reservoir and Gatehouse are historic elements of the public water supply for the Greater Boston area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The reservoir was located on Fisher Avenue between Hyslop and Channing Roads in Brookline, Massachusetts, and is now the site of Fisher Hill Reservoir Park. It was built in 1886-87 as an early component of the Boston Water Board&#39;s expansion of its high service system. The gatehouse may have been designed by Arthur Vinal, who also designed the Chestnut Hill pumping station at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story Richardsonian Romanesque structure, with its first floor finished in stone and its second in brick. Brownstone trim is used on the windows and corner quoins, and the voussoirs which form the arches on the first floor. There are pipes to the reservoir and down to Chestnut Hill, and gates for controlling access to local the distribution network. The building was taken out of service in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir and gatehouse were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Tappan Eustis Francis House is a historic house at 35 Davis Avenue in Brookline, Massachusetts. Built in 1877–78, the -story house is a well-preserved rendering of Queen Anne styling in brick. Its roof has varying patterns of slate tiles, and the facade has a variety of brickwork decorations. Its chimneys feature Panel brick design elements, and it has a Stick style porch. The house was built for a doctor who served the town for 50 years.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Fuller Building is a historic commercial building located at 808 Commonwealth Avenue in Brookline, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>This five-story limestone-faced building occupies a prominent position on Commonwealth Avenue near the south end of the BU Bridge. It was designed by the prolific architect Albert Kahn, a noted designer of industrial buildings, and built in 1927 for the Cadillac Auto Company. It is one of the few Boston-area buildings designed by Kahn, who did extensive work designing automobile-related industrial facilities in the American Midwest. This building stood at what was then a gateway position leading to a row of automotive dealerships along Commonwealth Avenue, and was designed to be a local flagship showroom for the luxury Cadillac line. It gets its name from Peter D. Fuller, president of the Cadillac Automobile Company of Boston. It ceased to be a car showroom in 1978, when Fuller closed his dealership, citing high overhead costs. It was purchased by Boston University (BU) the following year. In 2020, the building became home to the Howard Thurman Center, a center for student life at BU.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The John Goddard House is a historic house at 235 Goddard Avenue in Brookline, Massachusetts, US. The two-story wood-frame house was originally built by Joseph Goddard in 1670 and re-built by his grandson John Goddard in 1767, a farmer. It is one of the few 18th-century houses in Brookline, important for the role it and its owner played in the American Revolutionary War during the Siege of Boston in 1776. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The Goddard House is set on the north side of Goddard Avenue, opposite the northern border of Larz Anderson Park in southeastern Brookline. It is a roughly square wood-frame house, with a hip roof, central chimney, and a three-bay facade with a projecting gabled vestibule. The interior retains period fixtures, including wall paneling, doors, and hardware.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1767 by John Goddard on land originally purchased by his grandfather Joseph. Goddard, a teamster, was active in local civic affairs, notably serving in the Massachusetts Provincial Congress prior to the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Goddards property was one of several places in Massachusetts used by rebellious colonists for the storage of munitions (probably in the barn, since demolished). During the Siege of Boston, Goddard acted as wagon-master general to the Continental Army during the Fortification of Dorchester Heights, a night-time act that required the wagons to be rendered as quiet as possible to avoid notice. After the siege lifted and the British troops left Boston, Goddard refused George Washingtons offer to remain in military service due to his duty to his large family.</p><br>
<h2>John and Hannah Goddard, A Sermon</h2><br>
<p>Sermon preached in the First Parish Meeting House, Brookline, Mass. USA; by William H. Lyon D.D. in dedication of the Stained-Glass Window in memory of John and Hannah Goddard.</p><br>
<p>The evacuation of Boston on the seventeenth of March 1776, was the greatest victory which the Continental troops had gained up to that date. Nearly a year had passed since the days of Lexington and Concord, and just nine months since Bunker Hill. The attempt to conquer Canada had failed disastrously, and the eyes of the combatants on both sides of the ocean were directed to the struggle in and around Boston. There had seemed little prospect of American success when the siege began, and as time passed and no change in the condition had been affected, the prospect did not grow brighter.</p><br>
<p>When the spring began to open, however, Washington began to stir, and the result was a feat of engineering which both astonished and dismayed the too confident enemy.</p><br>
<p>On Monday night, March 4, a heavy cannonade was opened upon Boston from Roxbury, which was as hotly returned by the enemy, who had no suspicion of what it covered About seven o&#39;clock two thousand men marched to Dorchester Heights. Eight hundred formed an advance guard, followed by carts with intrenching tools, then came twelve hundred more troops, and last of all a train of three hundred wagons, carrying facines and hay. Every possible precaution had been taken to prevent discovery. The wheels of the carts were wound with hay, and the oxen shod with felt, and no whips were allowed to be used, the poor uninterested beasts being prodded along with sharpened sticks. So, though there was a bright moonlight, the British were completely taken by surprise when they beheld, the next morning, the fortifications which made Boston untenable. “Good God!” exclaimed General Howe, “these fellows have done more work in one night than I could have made my army do in three months. What shall I do?” At first he undertook to bombard the intrenchments, but his gunners could not fire so high, though they sunk the hind wheels of their cannon in the ground. Washington hoped they would attack him, in which case troops that were waiting on the other side of Boston would have assailed the city. “But the renowned Lord Percy Disappointed us,” wrote John Sullivan to John Adams, for he, instead of his Prospect Glass, took a multiplying Glass & viewed our people from the Castle, & made them fifty thousand, when, in fact, we had only sent on four thousand.” The result was that, to their humiliation, the whole British force, in great disorder and confusion, abandoned the city, leaving over two hundred cannons, thousands of muskets, and great stores of powder, lead, and other military necessities, and betook themselves to their fleet. So ended the siege of Boston.</p><br>
<p>With the commanders of the troops who occupied those decisive Dorchester Heights we need not now concern ourselves. Our business is with him who so efficiently and successfully organized and conducted the wagon train which bore the materials for the fortifications, John Goddard of Brookline. He was already well known in his own town as a patriot and had been appointed to various posts of service in the preparations for the Revolution. We find in the town records that on December 15, 1767, John Goddard was chosen one of five persons to “be a Committee to prepare a form for subscription against Receiving of those European superfluities and make Report” as to those “superfluities.” On the twentieth of November in that year Parliament had laid a duty on paint, paper, glass and tea imported into the colonies, and the Americans proposed to defeat it by simply going without those articles. On December 11, 1772, Mr. Goddard was one of a Committee of seven appointed “to take under consideration the Violation and Infringments of the Rights of the Colonists and of this Province in particular,” and “to be a Standing Committee of Communication and correspond with the Town of Boston and any other Town in the Subject of our Present Difficulties.” The grievances referred to are stated at length in the minutes of the twenty-eighth of the same month. As the sky grows darker with the clouds of war we find Mr. Goddard appointed (September 1, 1774) on another committee “to Ex amine into the state of Said Town as to Their Military preparations for War, in case of a Sudden attack from our Enemies”; and on the twenty-seventh made one of two delegates “to attend in the Provincial Congress, to be held at Concord, to meet the Delegates from the other Towns in the Province and unite with them in all Such Measures as shall Appear to you to have a tendency to promote the Welfare of this Province and to recover and Secure the first Rights and Liberties of America.” Again, on January 1, 1775, he is made &#39;one of a committee to see that the vote “To comply with the Recommendation as set forth by the Continental and Provindal Congress, be Duly Observed.”</p><br>
<p>We find also that at a meeting of the committee of safety at the house of Captain Stedman, in Cambridge, November 2, 1774, it was “Voted: unanimously, that Mr. John Goddard of Brookline be wagon master for the army, and that Captain White inform him of his choice, by the province;” and again, in records dated “Head Quarters, May 15, 1775,” “This is to certify, that Mr. John Goddard has been appointed by, the joint committee of safety and supplies as Wagon Master to this colony, to convey such articles of stores from one part of this colony to another as the public exigency may require, and that such other wagoners or drivers are to be employed as he shall recommend for that purpose.” It is proof of the efficiency and success of Mr. Goddard in this important service of transportation that it was recorded in the Orderly Book of Captain Abijah Wymans company in Colonel William Prescotts regiment, on August 9, 1775, that “Mr. John Goddard is appointed by the Commander in Chief, Wagon Master General to the army of the twelve united Colonies and is to be obeyed as such.” He had power to seize such wagons and horses or oxen as he needed for the public service and assign prices for them.</p><br>
<p>Before this appointment he had evidently been known to General Washington as a reliable patriot for we read in the same book, under date of April 21, “That the two hogsheads of powder in the possession of Mr. Pigion be lodged with John Goddard at Brookline, for the use of the American troops,” and again, on April 24, “that General Thomas do send an officer, with a sufficient guard, to convey a mortar and ordnance stores to Mr. John Goddard in Brookline where the powder is now stored.” Before this the powder that went to Concord had been stored in some bushes on Mr. Goddard&#39;s farm, and it was related as remarkable, if not providential, that the lightning one stormy night struck and split the tree at the foot of which the powder was hidden without causing any explosion. It was soon found, however, that the place of hiding was becoming too well known, and the powder was carried to Concord, followed one unlucky day by the British. The cannons, however, remained and were carried around through Heath Street in Roxbury to Dorchester Heights, leaving the old barn which had sheltered them to stand as a witness to this day. Mr. Goddard was urged by General Washington to conduct the transportation of his army to New York, and to remain with him to the end of the war, in which case he would have had the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel to begin with but be answered that he could not leave his wife and children, and having aided in driving the enemy from his own province, resigned and spent the rest of his life upon his farm.</p><br>
<p>At this time Mr. Goddard had fourteen children, of whom the youngest was born three weeks after that famous moonlight march of his father. Two were born later. Of these sixteen all but one, a daughter, were the children of his second wife, Hannah Seaver. She was born July 16, 1735, and died May 31, 1821. To have lived eighty-six years and to have borne fifteen children in less than twenty-five years argues a strong constitution, especially when we consider the labor and exposure which the faithful wives of our forefathers underwent upon their farms.</p><br>
<p>“I do not recollect,” says one of the sons, “there being more than one female assistant at one time in the house, unless when there was a nurse and sometimes a washerwoman one day in the week. In those days they baked all their bread, brewed their own beer, made their own soap, did all their sewing except making some new garments, knit their own stockings if they wore any, and often spun their own yarn, made the cloth for their shirts and sheets and even pocket handkerchiefs. The sleeved jackets and trousers were manufactured in the same family way; in making pocket handkerchiefs, the white linen was first made, though not very fine, and handed to the children, who tied shot up fancifully in it, and then dyed in the dye-pot in the corner of the fireplace; when done, washed and dried, we untied the shot, and behold the beautiful white rings made by the strings around the shot&#39; through which the dye did not penetrate; to make the checked and striped shirts, the colored part was died in the same pot.” And “how often have I seen the anxious mother search the well, which was about eight feet deep and fed by a spring, and protected by no curb, when by reaching and stirring with a long stick bubbles would rise, which went far to convince her that the child was there and she suffered most excruciatingly, till the missing was found.”</p><br>
<p>Whether she had the experience of one of our more recent Brookline mothers, who bore nine children and had eight of them down with the measles at once, in four rooms, two in a room, we are not told. Her maternal methods were simple, if we may judge from the reply made to someone who asked what she did with so many children, that she “put leather aprons on them all and turned them all out to play.” All was not play, however, with the young Goddards, for we are told of John, the eldest son, that before he was nine years old he had committed to memory and recited to Rev. Joseph Jackson the whole Book of Proverbs, with its thirty-one chapters and perhaps six thousand verses, and the one hundredth and nineteenth Psalm, which has one hundred and seventy-six verses. He came rightly by his love of the Bible, however, for his mother was the granddaughter of Deacon Benjamin White of the church in Brookline. Her mother, Hannah White, for whom she was named, died less than seven years after she was born, so that she had to leave her daughters education, to other than her natural guardian; but whoever received her did her work well, for Hannah grew up to be much beloved and respected, and was long remembered after she• was gone. Like “the mother of Zebedee&#39;s children,” her life sank from public fame into the lives of her husband and children, but it was true then of America, as Napoleon afterwards said of France, that “what the country needed most was mothers.”</p><br>
<p>Of her fifteen children only seven reached their majority, not from lack of care, but from the inevitable circumstances of their life. “They were scorched by the flames of the great open fireplace,” says Mrs. Earle of the children of that day, “but four feet away they would almost freeze. In their bedrooms there was, of course, no heat. On the Sunday after birth, the new baby was taken to the meeting-house, which was often miles away, and in which it was so cold in winter that the squares of communion bread rattled on the silver plate and ice had to be broken in the christening bowl.” Of Judge Sewalls fourteen children but three survived him, a majority dying in infancy, and of fifteen children of his friend, Cotton Mather, but two survived their father. The medical practice of the day was not well developed, and the household medicines were apt to be harsh or utterly useless. The farmers children fared better as to length of life than those of the Judge or the Parson.</p><br>
<p>The name Godard, though apparently French, is found in England before the Conquest, and is registered in Domesday Book as found in Wiltshire. There certainly lived in the thirteenth century Walter Godard Ville, who was levied upon by Henry III for horses and arms. His son dropped the last part of this name, and Godard continued henceforth to be the family title.</p><br>
<p>Our John Goddard came of a sturdy republican and militant stock. He was the great- grandson of William who emigrated to this country in 1665, and settled in Watertown, Mass. His father, Edward; was a wealthy farmer, educated at Oxford, and a commissioner under the Commonwealth. Most of his family fought with the King, but he chose the side of Parliament. It is supposed that William shared his father&#39;s political opinions and that it was persecution on this account that drove him to this country. If this be true, his love of free institutions cost him dear. According to the English law of that day, he was allowed to bring only five pounds in money with him, and the rest of his property, which he had stored in London, was burned in the great fire. He found himself, therefore, in straitened circumstances in a new land, and began to teach Latin and other branches of learning.</p><br>
<p>It was his third son, Joseph, born in London, who came to Brookline in 1670, to a part of it then included in Roxbury, and bought a strip of land extending from what is now Clyde Street to Jamaica Pond. To this he added, as deeds still extant show, fifty acres bought from Daniel Oliver in 1712, and in the same year fifty more from William Marean. On this land his descendants have lived ever since. There was a lane leading to Jamaica Plain and a cart road through the estate now owned by Mr. Moses Williams to what is now called Warren Street. This land passed to his fourth son, John, who, on his removal to Worcester in 1745, left the farm to John, the eldest son of his second wife, his first wife having had no children. This was the John Goddard of whom we have been speaking, and in whom the sturdy republican strain which was in his great-great-grandfather, Edward, of Cromwell&#39;s day and which sent his great grandfather, William, to this country, came once more into action. The fugitive from King Charles II avenged himself in the person of his great-grandson upon King George III. It was by this John Goddard that the older of the two houses was built in 1767, the more primitive one of 1680 having by this time earned an honorable discharge. The original clap-boards, fastened with English hand-cut nails, are still in their places.</p><br>
<p>While we have the family tree before us, let us trace out some of its later branches. The eldest son of the Revolutionary John, who bore the same name, was a delicate boy, though, like many a youth of the kind, he lived long and passed through much. We have seen what he could endure in the way of learning and reciting Scripture. Educated as a physician, he became a surgeon on one of our armed vessels, was captured with it, carried to a West Indian prison, almost died of a fever, escaped, was captured with the vessel to which he had swum, taken back to the same prison, escaped again, and reached home on a Sunday morning so changed that his own mother did not know him. This was doing fairly well for a “delicate” young man! He never fully recovered from this experience, but he married Susanna, daughter of John Heath of Brookline, and settled in Portsmouth, N. H. He was chosen United States Senator and Governor of the state, but declined, and advised his sons always to decline public office. After the death of his second wife, Jane Boyd, he married a daughter of President Langdon of Harvard College. He died in 1829 at the age of seventy- three.</p><br>
<p>Meantime, his younger brother Joseph had settled upon his fathers farm and died there in 1846 at the age of eighty-five. He married Mary Aspinwall, by whom he had eleven children. The tenth of these, Abijah Warren Goddard, spent his long life of ninety-seven years upon the original farm, building the present home in 1857. He died August 12, 1900, honored and beloved, after having held many offices in the town and been deacon of the First Parish for forty-four years. His daughter, Mrs. Eliza Watson, and her daughter, Mrs. D. Wright, are the sixth generation to occupy the old farm, the latter continuing in many useful works the patriotic spirit of her line. It is interesting to think that this Goddard, with whom we have lived and talked, connects us directly, through his father, with the Revolution. Abijahs elder brother, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, seems to have inherited in especial force the sturdy patriotic spirit of his English ancestors and of the Revolutionary John. Circumstances took him to England, where he became a naturalized citizen, but he was a fearless and persistent advocate of the Northern cause in a land where there was great need of defense and explanation. John Bright made special acknowledgment of the help he had received from this loyal American, and it is clear that he did much toward preventing the British from recognizing the Southern Confederacy.</p><br>
<p>The town records show that John Goddard was an active, patriotic and useful citizen. He was for a long series of years the moderator of the annual town meeting, being after 1779 always called Captain Goddard. He must have gone almost directly from Dorchester Heights to his farm, for on March 11 he was made one of the assessors of Brookline. On May 20 he was “Chosen to Serve for and Represent said Town in said Great & General Assembly,” and the purpose of appointing such a man is seen in the vote at once passed, “to advise the Person, if Chosen to Represent this Town in the next General Court, that if the Hon. Congress Should for the Safety of the American Colonies, Declare them Independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, that we said inhabitants will Solemnly engage with our Lives and fortune to support them in the measure.” The ring of this vote makes one suspect that the sturdy John had a hand in forging it. He seems also to have been much interested in the church, for in nearly every case in which the town passed a vote concerning it, or the minister, Mr. Goddard was the one, or one of those, selected to execute the measure. The Parish records show that he was also frequently chosen one of the delegates to accompany the minister to ordinations or installations. He died April 13,1816.</p><br>
<p>John and Hannah Goddard are types of the men and women who made New England what it was and, in much that is best, what it is. One understands whence the strength came that drove England out of the country, when one thinks of the thousands of such households that were scattered over the eastern border of this great land, thinking not much about themselves and not realizing what an empire they were helping to found. We cannot safely prophecy what will come of these new streams of life which are pouring into our country from the other side of the ocean. Who can tell what ancient vigor and fineness may come back to the descendants of the Greeks and Romans, or to those of the barbarians who poured down from the north and dispossessed these stocks of the fair domains of southern and eastern Europe? But we trust that enough will remain of the old colonial English blood to preserve the ideals of freedom which were incarnated in men like John Goddard and not less in women like Hannah, his wife.</p><br>
<p>There is one word more, however, which I would like to add. The window which we dedicate today owes its presence here to a sentence in the discourse delivered in this house during the week of the bicentennial celebration of the founding of this town, on November 12, 1905: “John Goddard and Hannah, his remarkable wife,” I said, “ought to have a memorial window in this church, where their direct descendants still worship; and Isaac Gardner should have another.” There were two descendants of John Goddard in the congregation who were not connected with this parish, and they made up their minds that such a window should be placed here and, with the co-operation of others, here it is. I now repeat the second suggestion, that Isaac Gardner should also have a window. I do not know who his descendants are, but, like the warrior of old who drew his bow at a venture and hit a king, I throw out this thought in the hope that somewhere it may strike the right man or woman. Isaac Gardner commanded one of the three companies from Brookline who went to the battles of Lexington and Concord. They assembled in front of the old meeting-house, just this side of the present parsonage. He never returned and was one of the first martyrs to the cause of your liberty and mine. He lived on the Brighton road, now Chestnut Hill Avenue, and was active in this parish, being often mentioned in its records. He was a good soldier of Christ as well as of the colony of Massachusetts Bay. He ought to be commemorated here, and perhaps those who will see that this is done are now hearing these words. John Goddard, one of the heroes of Dorchester Heights and of the evacuation of Boston, has his window. There is one still left on the sunny side of this meeting-house. What name would be more fitly placed there than that of Isaac Gardner?</p><br>
<p>However, this may be, we thank today those who have set this memorial of John and Hannah Goddard. When I came here sixteen years ago, their descendant, Deacon Abijah Goddard, venerable with four-score and ten years of useful life, sat on my left of the broad aisle, and on my right still sit his daughter, granddaughter and great-grandson. In the course of years these too will vanish, and those who take their places will know little of their predecessors. In time, this memorial will also pass away, but, built into the very foundation of a mighty nation, will endure forever the lives of those that gave themselves for it when it began.</p><br>
<p>The Graffam Development Historic District is a residential area located in the American town of Brookline, Massachusetts. It encompasses the best-preserved portion of a historic residential subdivision, platted and built between 1894 and 1907. The land was purchased by Peter Graffam, who built a variety of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses on Babcock Street, Abbottsford Road, Manchester Road, Stedman Street, and Naples Road in Brookline, Massachusetts. Graffam also developed Osborne Street, but most of its houses have since been modified, losing historic integrity. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Green Hill Historic District encompasses historical cross-section of residential housing in Brookline, Massachusetts, dating from the 18th century into the mid-20th century. The district includes properties on Warren, Cottage, and Fairmount Streets, and on Sargent Road, centered on the junction of Warren and Cottage Streets. The oldest houses  date to the mid-18th century, and were originally modest Georgian or Federal structures. During the 19th century the area was populated by the summer estates of some of Bostons leading merchant and business families, including members of the Cabot and Perkins families. During the later 19th and early 20th centuries some of Brooklines largest and most architecturally interesting homes were built in this area.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Heath House is a historic house at 12 Heath Hill in Brookline, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1855–56 by Charles Heath, a member of one of Brookline&#39;s wealthiest families of the 19th century. The house is architecturally eclectic, with elements of the Carpenter Gothic predominating. Its main gable end is sheathed in vertical boarding, and has an oculus window. The gable has bargeboard decoration, as do the horizontal trimlines above the first and second floors. Its first-floor windows have classic Gothic-style hoods.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Ebenezer Heath House is a historic house at 30 Heath Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The two-story wood-frame house was built in 1794 by John Heath for his son Ebenezer and daughter-in-law Hannah  Heath. The Heaths were related to the Sewall family, who were major local landowners in the 18th century. The house is five bays wide, with a hip roof pierced by a pair of chimneys behind the center roofline. The main entrance is flanked by pilasters, and topped by a four-light transom window and dentillated triangular pediment.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Adelaide is a historic apartment house at 13–21 High Street in the Pill Hill neighborhood of Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1875, it is one of the earliest known examples of a duplex-style apartment house, in which the individual units occupy space on two floors, connected by a private staircase. The building and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hotel Adelaide is set at the southwest corner of High and Walnut Streets, at the base of Pill Hill, a neighborhood of fashionable Queen Anne houses. It is a long three story brick structure, with sandstone trim. Notable exterior features include beltcourses of stone between the floors, and narrower stringcourses of stone at the base of the windows, with decorative stone hoods over the windows. A portion of the building at the southern end has a curved bay section and separate entrance, and is topped by a mansard roof; the function of this part of the hotel is unknown, but was an original feature.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1875 by Eben Wright, a real estate investor from Nahant, who owned this property and the nearby Hotel Kempsford. The building was designed by Brookline architect Obed Smith, who described as innovative the internal layout of the units, with two floors separated by a private staircase, in an 1884 publication. The style would later be emulated in other Brookline apartment houses including the Building at 30–34 Station Street.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Kempsford is a historic apartment house at 72 Walnut Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The four story brick building was designed by Brookline architect Obed Smith and built in 1875 for Eben Wright, a real estate developer who also built the nearby Hotel Adelaide. This building is a high-quality local example of Victorian Gothic architecture in brick. The apartment units inside are also in a distinctive two-story plan, one of the earliest examples of the type.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>105 Marion Street is a historic house located in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is significant as a well-preserved local example of the Second Empire style of architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house was built in 1861–1862. It has a typical mansard roof, with a central bell-shaped pediment above the centered front entrance. The pediment stands above a Palladian window with narrow side windows, which is above the main entry. The entry is sheltered by a porch supported by paired square columns.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.</p><br>
<p>12 Linden Street is a historic house located in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is a rare local example of Greek Revival styling, and one of a few houses to survive from the residential development of the Linden Street area in the 1840s.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house was built in 1843, and faces Linden Park, part of the original subdivision; it has a fully pedimented gable end, a heavy cornice, and pilastered cornerboards. The first owner was Charles Scudder, a merchant working in Boston.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The House at 12 Vernon Street in Brookline, Massachusetts is one of the town&#39;s most elaborate Queen Anne Victorians. The -story wood-frame house was designed by Tristram Griffin and built in 1890 for William Boynton, a Boston flour merchant. It has classic Queen Anne elements, including a turret, multiple projecting and recessed sections. Its front porch wraps around the turret to the side, supported by paired columns above a spindled balustrade, and features a gable above the entry stairs decorated with latticework and arched spindlework framing the opening.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The House at 12–16 Corey Road in Brookline, Massachusetts is a distinctive local example of townhouses in an English Revival style with Shingle elements. The townhouses were designed by Arthur H. Bowdith, a prominent local architect, and built in 1896 for Alan Arthur and Gardiner Shaw, two real estate agents. The townhouses have steeply-pitched shingled gables, projecting diamond-pane windows, and bracketed bargeboard trim.</p><br>
<p>The houses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>155 Reservoir Road is a historic house located in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is significant as a well-preserved Greek Revival house.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame structure was built sometime between 1830 and 1844, probably by Daniel Pierce. It has a traditional side-hall plan, three bays across, with paneled pilasters, and a fully pedimented gable end. A single-story porch with fluted Doric columns wraps across the front and around both sides. The house was built at the corner of Boylston Street and Reservoir Road, and moved to its present location in 1920.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The House at 156 Mason Terrace in Brookline, Massachusetts, is one of the most elaborately decorated houses on Corey Hill. The 2–1/2 story wood-frame house was built c. 1888–90, and has classic Queen Anne and Stick style details, including a turret with polygonal roof, porch with Stick decorations, and the variety of gables and projecting sections that typify Queen Anne styling. The house was built on land owned by Thomas Griggs, and was in 1890 sold to James Dunbar, a judge.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>19 Linden Street is a historic house located in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is a well-preserved local example of Greek Revival styling, and the best-preserved survivor of a residential subdivision developed in the 1840s.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>This -story wood-frame house was built in 1843–44. Unlike many Greek Revival houses, it has a side-gable roof, but it has corner pilasters and a single-story porch with Greek columns, and the gable is fully pedimented.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.</p><br>
