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Muddy River Musings: Final Fall Walking Tour: Blake Park, Sunday 2pm
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Meanderings through the thickets of Brookline's past. Thursday, October 30, 2014. Final Fall Walking Tour: Blake Park, Sunday 2pm. In 1880, banker Arthur Welland Blake engaged Frederick Law Olmsted to draw plans for the subdivision into roads and lots of the Blake family estate on Aspinwall Hill. It wasn't until 1916 that land was sold, roads were laid out — somewhat differently than Olmsted had envisioned them — and the development of "Blake Park" was announced with some fanfare. This free, 90-minute wa...
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Muddy River Musings: "Antiques & Horribles" on the Fourth of July
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Meanderings through the thickets of Brookline's past. Sunday, August 17, 2014. Antiques and Horribles" on the Fourth of July. Photo credit: Brookline Historical Society. This recently discovered photo shows the old firehouse on Washington Street, at the corner of High Street, in 1891. Flanked by two wooden commercial buildings, the firehouse (replaced by the current building in 1908) is decked out for the Fourth of July. But on closer examination, something seems odd. What's going on here? The answer may...
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Muddy River Musings: February 2014
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Meanderings through the thickets of Brookline's past. Wednesday, February 19, 2014. Tab Hunter, Young Love, BHS, and The Spirit of St. Louis. A couple weeks ago a friend forwarded a link to a curious piece of Brookline trivia for sale on eBay. Today's high school students may never have heard of Tab Hunter, but he was quite the heartthrob in 1957. Hunter established himself playing a young soldier in the 1955 Word War II drama Battle Cry. And the romantic comedy The Girl He Left Behind. Hunter himself ex...
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Muddy River Musings: March 2014
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Meanderings through the thickets of Brookline's past. Sunday, March 23, 2014. The Real Scoop on Sealey's Ice Cream / Sealey's Lunch. Sealey's Lunch, which closed a year ago this month after many years on Cypress Street, was a neighborhood institution beloved by generations of area residents and students and staff at Brookline High School. It was big news locally when Sophie and Tony Vessiropoulos announced the closing of Sealey's Lunch, on Cypress Street just off Route 9, at the end of March 2013. Lo...
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Muddy River Musings: First Light: Coolidge Corner Then & Now
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Meanderings through the thickets of Brookline's past. Tuesday, November 18, 2014. First Light: Coolidge Corner Then and Now. Enjoy artists, musicians, and performers while visiting Brookline's fine shops as the annual First Light festival. Takes place this Thursday, November 20th, from 5 to 8 pm. And keep an eye out in Coolidge Corner for "Then and Now" posters showing selected locations as they looked in the past. Coolidge Corner Then and Now Locations. Eureka Puzzles, 1349 Beacon Street. This project w...
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Brookline Historical Society: Membership
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Photo and Map Archives. Blake Park: History of a Brookline Neighborhood. Two Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives in Service to the Town. The Brookline Reservoir and the Cochituate Aqueduct. Friends of the Old Burying Ground. The Peabody Sisters in Brookline and Beyond. The Historical Stained Glass Treasures of the First Parish Church. As a member you will also receive the Society newsletter, advanced notice of events, and invitations to annual members-only presentations in historic homes and buildings.
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Brookline Historical Society: Photo Inventory
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Photo and Map Archives. Blake Park: History of a Brookline Neighborhood. Two Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives in Service to the Town. The Brookline Reservoir and the Cochituate Aqueduct. Friends of the Old Burying Ground. The Peabody Sisters in Brookline and Beyond. The Historical Stained Glass Treasures of the First Parish Church. 25 Park St., 1909. Metropolitan News and Pub. Co. Harvard St. 367-375 ,1910. C H Tourotllott Co. Watercolor by Jeanne Gray (1993). Muddy Brook. The Lake. Corey Hill, 1900s.
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Publications of the Brookline Historical Society
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Photo and Map Archives. Blake Park: History of a Brookline Neighborhood. Two Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives in Service to the Town. The Brookline Reservoir and the Cochituate Aqueduct. Friends of the Old Burying Ground. The Peabody Sisters in Brookline and Beyond. The Historical Stained Glass Treasures of the First Parish Church. Publications of the Publication Society. Series 1, 1895-1896. A Letter From Rebecca Boylston To Edward Boylston. Sharp Papers in the Brookline Public Library.
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The Edward Devotion House, Brookline MA
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Photo and Map Archives. Blake Park: History of a Brookline Neighborhood. Two Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives in Service to the Town. The Brookline Reservoir and the Cochituate Aqueduct. Friends of the Old Burying Ground. The Peabody Sisters in Brookline and Beyond. The Historical Stained Glass Treasures of the First Parish Church. The Edward Devotion House. Brookline, Massachusetts 02446. 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month. June 21st - October. Edward Devotion House, circa 1895.
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Brookline Reservoir & the Cochituate Aqueduct
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Photo and Map Archives. Blake Park: History of a Brookline Neighborhood. Two Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives in Service to the Town. The Brookline Reservoir and the Cochituate Aqueduct. Friends of the Old Burying Ground. The Peabody Sisters in Brookline and Beyond. The Historical Stained Glass Treasures of the First Parish Church. The Brookline Reservoir and the Cochituate Aqueduct.
