Miscellaneous Sites in Brookline, Massachusetts: 6 Hawes Street, originally built in 1864 for David Sears.

Object Details

General: The house was remodeled and expanded in 1906 by Clarence H. Blackall for its then owner, Nathaniel Amster, a mining expert. Around that time landscape architects Pray, Hubbard & White developed a landscape design. Their work is documented in photographs and plans in the "American Landscape and Architectural Design" collection at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

Photographer: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966
Collection Creator: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966; Sears & Wendell; Olmsted Brothers; Harvard University; American Society of Landscape Architects

Place: Massachusetts -- Brookline; United States of America -- Massachusetts -- Norfolk County -- Brookline

Topic: Trees; Shrubs; Walkways, brick; Stairs; Sidewalks; Terra-cotta; Doorways; Pergolas; Houses

See more items in: Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection; Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection / Series 1: Photographic Images / United States / Massachusetts / MA126: Brookline -- Miscellaneous Sites in Brookline, Massachusetts

Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection.

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