On the left is the well-known “Devotion House” with parts dating to 1680 which still stands today as the headquarters of the Brookline Historical Society. On the right is the 1892 Devotion School building. The 1913 school building has not yet been built.

Construction materials can be seen by the car in front of the newly-built third building of the Devotion School which is still standing.
[Source: Historic New England]

Glidden W. Joy house. Andrew J. Harrington house is to the left, the William Coolidge house if off screen on the right.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.
[Source: Joel Shield]

Glidden W. Joy house.The porch will be removed and the road edge will be much closer to the house with the widening of Beacon St.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.
[Source: Joel Shield]

Looking east from Coolidge Corner at the circa 1888. The Coolidge & Brother store is on the left. On the right side of Beacon St., from left to right, are:

• House of Charles Stearns, newly relocated away from the former edge of Beacon St.
• Intersection with Harvard St.
• Empty area where the Andrew Harrington had been. It was moved to Longwood Ave.
• House of Glidden W. Joy, with the front porch removed and situated closer to the street after the widening.

[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking east from the corner of Beacon & Webster Ave., one block west of Coolidge Corner. The former William Coolidge house is in the foreground followed by the Glidden W. Joy house to its left. Webster Ave. goes to the right.

William Dexter Coolidge, one half of the Coolidge and Brother store owners, died in December 1884. His house was then purchased by George H. Wheeler, a real estate broker, in 1885. When the town decided to widen Beacon St., the house had to be removed as it was situated at the apex of Beacon and Webster streets where there was insufficient room for it to be moved back. In 1887, Wheeler moved his new house to One Williams St. where it remained until 1946 when it was removed for an addition to Kehillath Israel.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking west on Beacon St. From left to right: the former William Coolidge house, Webster Ave. entering Beacon St., the Samuel Hutchinson house.

William Dexter Coolidge, one half of the Coolidge and Brother store owners, died in December 1884. His house was then purchased by George H. Wheeler, a real estate broker, in 1885. When the town decided to widen Beacon St., the house had to be removed as it was situated at the apex of Beacon and Webster streets where there was insufficient room for it to be moved back. In 1887, Wheeler moved his new house to One Williams St. where it remained until 1946 when it was removed for an addition to Kehillath Israel.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking west on Beacon St. On the right just off screen is the Coolidge & Brother store. In the center is the "For Sale" sign on the land of Emily Northend. On the left is the John Emery Hoar house at 1372 Beacon St., just past Centre St. Hoar was master of the high school and the first town librarian. Above are the houses on Summit Ave.

1372 Beacon St. Centre St. is on the right, looking east on Beacon. Hoar was master of the high school and the first town librarian.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

1372 Beacon St., looking west. Centre St. is off photo to the right, Sarah Mellon house is on the far left. Hoar was master of the high school and the first town librarian.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Looking west, Winchester St. comes in in the distance, Center is just off screen to the right. The two-story building housing the storefronts in the foreground was constructed 1914-15 replacing the house of D. Blakely Hoar at 1372 Beacon St. All structures still stand today. The stores from right to left:

• 1372 Beacon: Henry S. Hatch, Undertaker
• 1374 Beacon: Beacon News Co. Magazines can be seen hanging in the window.
• 1374a Beacon: Coolidge Corner Shoe Repairing Co. James De Luca, proprietor.
• 1376 Beacon: Kim Wah Laundry

From postcard

Looking south from Beacon St. Webster St. is slant left and Park St. is slant right. From right to left:

• Baptist Church
• 46 Webster St.
• 40 Webster St.
• 34 Webster St.
• 26 and 32 Webster St.

[Source: Brookline Public Library]

Looking at the west side of Park St. with Beacon St. just offscreen to the right. From a stereoview labeled as the Mann house with the signature of an Emma L. Johnson (unidentified). Nehemiah Pittman Mann, Jr. lived here, 1381 Beacon St., from approximately 1869 to 1880. The house at 114 Park St., partially visible to the left, is that of Mann’s father, also named Nehemiah Pittman Mann. The father died in January, 1880 after which the son moved to Cambridge. The estimated date of this photo is between 1880 and 1887.

Samuel Hutchinson house. Beacon St. going west to the right; Park St. going south to the left.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Samuel Hutchinson house. Beacon St. going east to the left.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Beacon St. going west to the left. Winchester St. to the left after the house. On the right is the D. Blakely Hoar house at 1372 Beacon St.

From the 1887 photo series taken just before the widening of Beacon St., most likely by Augustine H. Folsom, a Boston photographer.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

Beacon St. going west to the left. Winchester St. to the left after the house. Summit Ave. can be see in the background.near the top of Corey Hill.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

On the northeast corner of Beacon and Winchester Streets, these buildings were each constructed as an eight-family apartment house, all still standing. Each one was imprinted with a name. From right to left: the Windsor, Wrexham, Tamworth, and Wedgemoir at #1378-1392 Beacon Street and the Richelieu and Winchester at #1-5 Winchester Street. They were all designed by W. H. Andrews in 1902-03 and were built by Peleg Briggs Wadsworth, a real estate developer. Andrews designed these brick and limestone buildings using a number of architectural elements found in the designs of other Beacon Street buildings dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: rounded bay windows alternating with flat facades; projecting cornices with brackets and dentils; and center entrances.
[ref. Brookline Preservation Dept.]

On the right is a partial view of the D. Blakely Hoar house at 1372 Beacon St.

Photo labeled "35839".
[Source: Joel Shield]

Seen from just west of Winchester St. which is entering Beacon on the near left. Visible on the far right are the front steps of the Samuel Hutchinson house. The house on a slant is on Park St. Preparations for the widening of Beacon St. appear to be in progress.
[Source: Digital Commonwealth]

[Source: Brookline Public Library]