Miscellaneous Sites in Brookline, Massachusetts: view from the Sears family home, looking west along Beacon Street, with the S. S. Pierce Building at Coolidge Corner on the far left.

Object Details

General: The image appears to have been taken from an upstairs window or the roof of Thomas W. Sears's family home at 2 Charles Street (now 1269 Beacon Street). The new S. S. Pierce Building was constructed in 1898-99, replacing an earlier one seen in MA126012. In the center of the image is a partial view of the James Whitney house, at the corner of Pleasant Street and Beacon Street.

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

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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