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Walking Tours

Virtual tour of Brookline
[via Google Maps with location-based pictures and descriptions]
Aspinwall
[Tour #6: Brookline Village Walking Tours, Brookline Preservation Commission, 1977]
Babcock St. East
[Tour #5: A Guide To North Brookline, Brookline Preservation Commission, 1982]
Brookline Village
[Tour #3: Brookline Village Walking Tours, Brookline Preservation Commission, 1977]
Coolidge Corner East
[Tour #1: A Guide To North Brookline, Brookline Preservation Commission, 1982]
Coolidge Corner West, The Sharp and Griggs Farms
[Tour #2: A Guide To North Brookline, Brookline Preservation Commission, 1982]
Cottage Farm: East
Cottage Farm: West
Edward Devotion House, Babcock Farm, and McKayville
[Tour #3: A Guide To North Brookline, Brookline Preservation Commission, 1982]
Emerson Garden neighborhood
[Tour #4: Brookline Village Walking Tours, Brookline Preservation Commission, 1977]
Fisher Hill, A Tour
Pill Hill (with the Children of 1886)
[Tour #2: Brookline Village Walking Tours, Brookline Preservation Commission, 1977]
The Lindens
[Including Tour #5: Brookline Village Walking Tours, Brookline Preservation Commission, 1977]
The Point
[Tour #1: Brookline Village Walking Tours, Brookline Preservation Commission, 1977]
Upper Naples Rd. to Babcock St.
[Tour #4: A Guide To North Brookline, Brookline Preservation Commission, 1982]

Virtual Walking Tours

A Century and a Half of Shopping in Coolidge Corner

Ken Liss takes his outdoor walking tour indoors with this video virtual walking tour. Enhancing the outdoor experience is the video juxtaposition of the old stores and locations with their present-day iterations.

The Beaconsfield Terraces:
"An Experiment in Domestic Economy"

Ken Liss again reprises one of his outdoor walking tours with this augmented video version exploring the developments of Eugene Knapp, forerunners of today's condo complexes with their shared infrastructures.

Hidden Paths

Linda Pehlke's marvelous and detailed historical accounts of the paths of Brookline originally appeared as a series of articles in Our Town Brookline magazine, in 2005. They are reprinted here courtesy of the magazine and Ms. Pehlke.