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Funeral, Cemetery, Gremation and Transfer Arrangements
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The BROOKLINE CO-OPERATIVE BANK
Chartered March 13, 1895 Began Business May 2, 1895
BROOKLINE CO OPERATIVE BANK
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CO-OPERATIVE BANK
BACONLINE CO-OPERATIVE BANK
Total Assets, $2,932,447.34
OFFICERS CHARLES A. LEAVITT, President WILLIAM D. PAINE, Vice-President ANNA N. PATTEN, Treasurer
DIRECTORS
Selden R. Allen Walter B. Bushway
George W. Delano
Francis W. Hamilton
Charles A. Leavitt William D. Paine AnnA N. Patten John J. White Ernest C. Young
OFFICE HOURS Daily 9 to 3, Saturday 9 to 12 First Thursday in each month 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Shares in this bank are insured in full in Share Insurance Fund of the Cooperative Central Bank, under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Loans on first mortgage on real estate in Brookline especially favored. Telephone ASPinwall 4743
5 HARVARD STREET
BROOKLINE. MASS.
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THE BROOKLINE SAVINGS BANK
Incorporated 1871
Assets Over $20,000,000
President EDGAR N. WRIGHTINGTON Asst. Treasurer ADRIAN E. BESSEY
Treasurer
C. WILLIAM MERZ
BANK HOURS 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
SATURDAYS
9 a. m. to 12 m.
The Only Savings Bank in Brookline INTEREST BEGINS THE 10TH OF EACH MONTH
Dividends Payable on and after the 20th of January and July
PERMANENT ORDERS MAY BE FILED
AND DIVIDEND CHECKS
WILL BE SENT BY MAIL
VILLAGE SQ.
BROOKLINE, MASS.
Branch Office
275 Harvard Street,
Coolidge Corner
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NORFOLK COUNTY TRUST COMPANY
at COOLIDGE CORNER
BROOKLINE
MASSACHUSETTS
Real Estate Mortgages Loans-Personal and Commercial Checking Accounts Savings Accounts Safe Deposit Boxes Travelers Checques
Ten Convenient Offices BROOKLINE, CANTON, DEDHAM, FRANKLIN, NEEDHAM NEEDHAM HEIGHTS, QUINCY, STOUGHTON, WALPOLE AND EAST WALPOLE
MEMBER Federal Reserve System Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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B ROOKLINE FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION Assets - - - $6,500,000
OFFICERS President RALPH E. ELLIS Vice President DAVID A. FOLEY Sec'y and Treas. FRED I. NYE Ass't. Treas. EVA B. ENGLAND DIRECTORS
STEPHEN E. BURKE JOHN H. KING
ARTHUR P. CONNELLY
JAMES LEVENSOHN
ARTHUR P. CROSBY
ABRAHAM LEVINE
RALPH E. ELLIS
GEORGE V. NAUMAN
DAVID A. FOLEY
H. ALLEN RUTHERFORD
IRVING P. GAMMON, Jr. SAMUEL SIDD
JAMES W. TONRA
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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Brookline Chamber of Commerce
Brookline, Massachusetts
OFFICERS
President, Richard S. Bowers Vice-President, Francis S. Wyner
Vice-President, Arthur W. Brannen
Vice-President, Arthur P. Crosby Vice-President, Stephen R. Dow Treasurer, Walter D. Allen
DIRECTORS
Lawrence Black Theodore G. Bremer Stewart Dalzell, Jr. Edward Dane Erland F. Fish
Ralph O. Frank
John V. Jewett Gilman Lougee Edward J. McGinnis Arthur C. Morey
Thomas A. Sullivan
Divisions of Membership: Civic, Mercantile, Building and Development
The Brookline Chamber of Commerce is anxious to give information or service in any way possible at any time and is pleased to cooperate with people who wish to locate in the town for business or residence.
For information address: C. E. HAWKINS, Executive Secretary 251 HARVARD STREET Tel. LONgwood 6210
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BROOKLINE
B ROOKLINE is a town of high civic standards, of beautiful homes, of steadily increasing size and importance among the cities and towns of Massachusetts and New England. Because of its proximity to Boston and its unusual advantages as a place of residence, it is destined to grow and expand much more rapidly than most other municipalities.
Brookline is one of the oldest municipalities in the Commonwealth, having been a separate township for two hundred and thirty-five years, and for seventy-five years prior thereto a part of the settlement of Boston.
The town now covers an area of about 6.8 miles with approximately 90 miles of streets and about 180 miles of sidewalks. The population of the town is about 54,000 and the report of the Assessors establishing a tax rate of $26 for the past year gave the valuation of the town as $158,978,500, including $145,564,800 on realty and $13,413,- 700 on personal property.
Through wise administration of municipal affairs by competent officials on a strictly business basis, Brookline has developed notable school andrecreational systems,un excelled police and fire departments, a water supply and sanitary system that compares with any community, and parks and highways that are among the best.
Geographically, the town is a part of the territory of the metropolitan city of Boston and in many respects is as much an integral part of that city as any other section within the same radius. Situated southwest of the cen- tral part of the original peninsula on which the old town and city of Boston is located, Brookline approaches in its nearest part to but little more than two miles in a direct line from the State House, while its most remote bound- ary is only about six miles away. The territory is oblong in shape and is a rolling country with many hills, the highest, in the western part of the town, rising to between three and four hundred feet above tide water. The town is surrounded on three sides by Boston proper or what are now sections of that city, and touches the city of Newton on the fourth side. It is entirely isolated from its county of Norfolk and most of the town boundaries have been adjusted several times since originally laid out.
MANNING'S BROOKLINE (MASSACHUSETTS) DIRECTORY
FOR YEAR BEGINNING MAY, 1944
CONTAINING General Directory of Citizens, Classified Business Direc- tory, Street and House Directory, Record of Town Government, Societies, Churches, County, State and United States Governments, Courts, Etc. Including Citizens serving in Armed Forces of United States witn branches of service
WORLD WAR II EDITION
VOLUME LIV ESTABLISHED 1868
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104 HANOVER SQUARE Telephone CAPitol 0657 BOSTON, MASS.
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INDEX TO CONTENTS
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Abbreviations 69
Advertisers Index.
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Knights of Pythias. 463
Alphabetical Directory 69
Labor Organizations
Altitude of City
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Libraries
236
Area of City 13
American Legion.
463
Masonic 463
Apartments 461
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Mercantile Statistics 13
Associations 463
Norfolk County Government
281
Benevolent Protective Order Elks 463.
Bill of Rights. 380
Branded Goods (See Classified Business
Directory)
Brookline Alphabetical Directory 69
Buildings 468
Cemeteries. 468
Churches 469
City Statistics
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Classified Business Directory
461
Clubs. 463
Commercial Statistics
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State Government 253
County Government. 281
Courts. 130
Educational Statistics
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Town Government. 100
Transportation 13
U. S. Representatives.
U. S. Senators
United States Government. 357
Valuation Taxable Property . 14
463
Independent Order of Odd'Fellows 463
Schools 485
Societies, Associations, Etc. 463
Street Directory 385
Tax Rate.
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Topography of City 13
Financial. 14
Fire Department. 100
Historical 14
Hospitals and Homes. 475
Incorporated Companies (see Alphabeti- cal Directory
Veteran Military Organizations. 1
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481 Parks and Playgrounds 451
Parks and Points of Interest. 45+ 481
Police Department 103
Population Statistics. 13
Post Offices 296
Public Schools. 103
Religious and Benevolent Organizations 329
Military Organizations.
Numerical Street Directory 385
Location of City 13
Massachusetts State Government. 253
Assessed Valuation
Industrial Statistics 14
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ADVERTISERS
BROOKLINE
Acme Shade & Venetian Blind Co
54
Allen's Garage 23
Apartments Inc
61
Aspinwall Garage
top lines and 23
Baker F C Co
front cover and 22
Baltic Evangelical Mission 29
Barney & Carey Co top lines and 41
Beacon Mortgage Co Inc back cover and 46
Beaconsfield Hotel
55
Boston Edison Co
46
Boston Tool & Die Co
63
Bradley R M & Co
back cover
Brannens Laundry
39
Brookline Baptist Church
30
Brookline Chamber of Commerce 7 and 8
Brookline Chronicle back cover
Brookline Citizen
front cover and 68
Brookline Co-operative Bank 3
Brookline Federal Savings & Loan Associa- tion 6
Brookline Historical Society 43
Brookline Nursing Home 65
Brookline Public Library
44
Brookline Savings Bank
4
Brookline Trust Co front cover and 2
Brookline Village Tire & Battery Co 23
Brown Homer T Co
top lines and 60
Cashman Motor Co top lines and 24
Children Incorporated 39
China Inn front cover
Choate School
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Chronicle The
back cover
Church David B
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Church of Christ
31
Churches
28
Clauson H G Inc back cover and 24
Clauson's Garage back cover and 24
Co-operative Upholstery Shop 52
Dalzell Wm A 24
David Memorial Nursing Home 64
Devotion Edward House 43
Dexter Garage 24
Dow Radio Co Inc top lines and 52
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Driscoll James & Son Inc 42
Dy Dee Service 39
Dyer & Co Inc back cover, top lines and 60 Fay C E Co 25
First Presbyterian Church
32
Food Center Inc
front cover and 50
Fraser & Walker Inc 67
Goudey W H Russell back cover
33
Harvard Upholstering Co
top lines and 52
Henderson James H
61
Herbert Dora Beauty Salon
65
Hewins Donald
66
Hill Edw H & Sons
25
Hinds Laundry Co
39
Home Improving Co of Mass top lines and 48
Hotel Beaconsfield
55
Ideal Mower Sales & Service 54
Kiwanis Club of Brookline 40
Lapham-Brown
25
Lawton-Hevessy Co 25
Library, Brookline Public
44
Liquor Mart The
front cover
Longwood Towers
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Mackey & Meade Co Inc
54
Manning H A Co
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Metropolitan Coal Co
top lines .
Milligan William N 62
Ming Restaurant top lines and 58
Nicolai A 26
Norfolk County Trust Co
back bone, top lines and 5
Paine W D 66
Paine's ·Student Store
66
Palmer F E Florist back bone, top lines and 47 Pearson, Florist
48 57
Pelham Hall Co
Press Publishing Co front cover and 68
Proctor, Cook & Co
top lines and 61
Public Library
44
Publishers Notice
21
Red Cab Co Inc
front cover and top lines
Regent The
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Rogers Flower Shops
48
Russell Frank A Inc
61
Russell Memorial Convalescent Home
65
Sacks H & Sons
top lines and
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Savage Henry W Inc 59
Sheehan's Express 67
Sonnabend A M Properties 61
Steverman Ben 41
St Marks Methodist Church 34
Taff & Co
62
Tony's Brookline Village Tire & Battery Co 23 .
Torf Memorial Chapel
back cover, top lines and 36
Wallbank C H Co 62
Washington Sq Print The 66
Waterman J S & Sons front cover and 36
White & Franke Inc 48
BOSTON
Armstrong Transfer Express Co 67
Bird M T & Co 66
Boone Hazel School of Dancing
top lines and 45
Boston Consolidated Gas Co 51
Boston Edison Co 46
Eastman Funeral Service top lines and 37
Homefinding Service back cover and 62
Massachusetts Wharf Coal Co 51
Metropolitan Coal Co top lines
Nordblom Robert A Management Co 57
Pelham Hall The 57
Regent The 57
Roxbury Mattress Corp top lines
Salvation Army 35
Sears, Roebuck & Co top lines and 38
Warwick The
57
Waterman J S & Sons front cover and 36
ALLSTON
Brighton Co-operative Bank top lines and 46
Driscoll Dennis & Co Inc
Harvard Church Congregational
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Shaughnessy F J & Sons top lines and 67
Starr Anne Nursing Home 65
CAMBRIDGE Ace Shade & Screen Co bottom edge
Flag Center 63
Maine Wood Co top lines
Mass Wharf Coal Co 51
Merrill Shade & Screen Co
63
Mount Auburn Cemetery top lines and 27
National Sales Co back cover, top lines and 53 DORCHESTER Gleason R & E F Co 36
JAMAICA PLAIN
Forest Hills Cemetery
top lines
NEWTON CENTER Newton Cemetery & Crematory top lines Ruane Flowers top lines and 49
NORTH QUINCY
White Bros Milk Co
51
ROXBURY
Beacon Mattress Co
top lines
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BROOKLINE
The publishers of this Directory consider it advisable and desirable to set forth the follow- ing paragraphs, in as simple and attractive a manner as possible, to enable the readers of these descriptive pages to comprehend as many of the outstanding features of Brookline as limited space permits. To portray Brookline's charm consistent with facts. We believe with John Cotton Dana, the great librarian, that "Good citizenship springs from a knowledge about one's own community." The teachings of the City Map and the City Directory about localities, districts, street locations, street changes, growth of sections and general city changes are of great importance to property owners, old residents, new residents and school students. Racial characteristics of names in the Directory enable the consultant to gain a very comprehensive knowledge of the inhabitants of the city and many other educational facts. Notable men all through history have contributed their philosophy as to the value of knowledge about the home town. Here is one from Abraham Lincoln: "I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him." In studying the follow- ing remember that the Brookline City Directory disseminates this information far and wide where this Directory represents Brookline in the Free Directory Library Exchange System of North America. The Brookline City Directory, with nearly 700 closely printed pages, is the City of Brookline in book form; its family and social life, business and industrial life, is por- trayed in great detail.
LOCATION-Brookline is noted as the largest town with town government in the country. It has tenaciously clung to this form of government, surrounded as it is by cities, because there is a belief here that it is the most democratic form existing anywhere today. It lies close to the heart of the Metro- OF BOSTON politan District of Massachusetts. It is impossible to tell when entering and leaving Brookline because of the den- sity of population and homes and business places filling it BROOKLINE to the brim. It is less than five miles to the heart of Boston and on three sides is bordered by Boston. On RIVER FOUNDED 1630 the west it is bordered by Newton. It is 37 miles to Worcester, 5 miles to Cambridge, 40 miles to Providence, 85 to Springfield, 250 to New York, 115 to Portland, 85 to Concord, 100 to Hartford, 249 to Bangor, 241 to MUDDY Montpelier, 180 to Albany, 450 to Washington, 1025 INCORPORATED, to Chicago, 160 to White Mountains.
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POPULATION-The growth of Brookline in popula- tion has been fairly rapid and steady for many years. The estimate for 1944 is close to 55,000. In 1910 there were 27,792 residents here, in 1920 census 37,748, in 1930 cen- sus 47,490. There are 11,489 families; 3,720 home owners. 66.8% of population is white, 32.8% foreign born, 3% negro. Population 1800 was about 605, and 1900 had grown to 19,305. 1790 first census 484.
TOPOGRAPHY - Brook- line has a very beautiful terrain, a rolling land with many wind- ing streets to fit the landscape, beautiful homes on high spots HARVARD SQUARE IN 1865 afford a picturesque beauty not often found in urban communities. It covers 6.81 square miles. The altitude runs from 17 to 359 feet above sea level. There is no waste land in Brook
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line, it is all adaptable for residence and business use. The main thoroughfares run over hill and dale through business and residence sections to the various squares that make Brookline an unusual town. There are 85.97 miles of streets.
HISTORICAL For
75 years from 1630 to 1705 the territory comprising present Brookline was a part of Boston and was re- ferred to as "Muddy River" and "Boston Commons." In 1686 petition was made to separate it from Boston, but not until 1705 was it ranted when it became Brookline. Places of inter- est are as follow: Edw. Devotion House, 347 Har- vard Street; Sewall Stearns House, 265 Harvard Street; Punch Bowl Tavern, 97 BROOKLINE, MAS SAUMONETTE FROM ABOVE THE ROAD, FIVE MILES FROM BUNTON. (Fos deserij Washington Street; House BROOKLINE IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY built by Zabdiel Boylston, physician; Isaac Gardner homeside, 511 Chestnut Hill Avenue; Theodore Lyman House, 105 Heath Street; "Richards Tavern," Heath Street at northeast corner of Hammond; Country Club, 191 Clyde Street; "Faulkner Farm, " 280 Newton Street; Mt. Walley estate, 55 Mt. Walley Avenue; "Weld," 64 Avon Street; Goddard's Homestead, 235 Goddard Avenue; Davis-Cabot-Goddard House, 215 Warren Street; site of Homestead of Peter Aspinwall, 89 Aspinwall Avenue; site of John Sharp House, 124 Harvard Street; site of Griggs Farm about 555 Washington Street; site of Dr. William Aspinwall; site of First Parish House, 371 Walnut Street. In 1785 there were 50 fami- lies in town. In 1740 there were 61 dwellings in town. First cemetery on Walnut Street.
It is probable that the name of Brookline was taken from Judge Sewall's farm called "Brookline." At the beginning of the century there were about 50 families and a population of 300.
INDUSTRIAL-Brookline is not an industrial town. It has always been one of select residence. However there are activities that should be mentioned in connection with a com- plete coverage of Brookline. Greeting cards, knitted fabrics, automobile bodies, nautical instruments, printing and publishing, confectionery, etc., are covered in the products made here. Brookline is well placed for manufacturing, the labor market of the great Metropolitan District is at the disposal of Brookline employers when wanted. If it becomes desirable to
develop Brookline's resources of manufacturing possibilities, it can well become an industrial center.
COMMERCIAL-There are 341 retail stores in Brookline, having 246 proprietors, with 2,035 employes, with a payroll of $2,423, 766. Annual sales $18,765,315. There are sixteen major products distributed. There are 4 wholesale establishments with 70 em- ployes, proprietors and officials. Payrolls of $135,804. Annual sales of $1,855,358. Brook- line has about 3 miles of store frontage mostly concentrated in Brookline Village district, Coolidge Corners, Harvard Square, Washing- ton Square, Washington Street. Modern transportation has more or less scattered the mercantile business of Brookline into neighbor- hood distribution. There are nearly 300 pro- fessional offices. The trading population is over 75,000.
HARVARD STREET OFFICE BUILDING
FINANCIAL-There are 5 financial institutions in Brookline with 2 trust companies, 1 savings bank and 2 cooperative banks. Deposits in commercial and savings banks are nearly $50,000.000. The cooperative banks are well established and active institutions with assets over $6,000,000. Total resources of all the institutions over $60,000,000 in 1944. Assessed valuation of property within the city is $158,978,500. Wealth per capita among the lead- ing municipalities of the state.
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GROUP OF SCHOOLS AND OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS
EDUCATIONAL-The public schools system of Brookline is high class. There are 11 public schools including 1 senior high school. Number of pupils 6,600. Teachers 290. Value of property $4,326,800. There are 2 parochial schools with 1200 pupils. There are 8 private schools. There is a public library system with a main building and 3 branches with 169,640 volumes. The nearest City Directory library is maintained by the publishers of the directorv, The H. A. Manning Co., at the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce and which is for free reference use by person or telephone, located at 500 Memorial Drive telephone Trowbridge 4100
RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT- There are 21 churches representing 12 de- nominations. These church edifices placed well over the entire township add much to the beauty of the town. There are 17 hos- pitals, homes and asylums. The fraternal and club life is extensive. and is composed of nearly 100 well organized, some with excel- lent quarters in their own buildings and grounds.
RECREATIONAL-There are in Brookline 3 public parks, valued at $2,617, 280; 19 playgrounds; 7 public squares. The athletic field of Boston University is located in Brookline. The Longwood Tennis Courts BROOKLINE BAPTIST CHURCH draw international stars in season play, one of the outstanding events in this line of sports. Three golf courses. Brookline shares the advantages of the shore and beach resorts of the Metropolitan District.
TRANSPORTATION-The Boston & Albany Railroad passes through Brookline from east to west. There are five stations. There are 3 miles of electric railway operating as an extensi on to the Boston Elevated system, cross town traffic is handled by motor bus lines. The famous Worcester Turnpike passes through from east to west. Brookline shares with the Metropolitan District the finest highways radiating in all directions on two, four, and six lanes. Horsecars began running in Brookline in 1858.
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MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS-Town form of government with board of selectmen. 86 miles of streets; 103 miles of sewers; 8,000 water meters; capacity of water supply 12,000,000 gallons, with dailv average pump of 4,950,000 gallons; there are 124 miles of water mains; Fire Department has 140 men with 8 engines, 4 hook and ladder trucks, 5 automobiles housed in 7 stations, valued at $585,000; Police Department has 131 men with 17 pieces of motor equip- ment and one central station; property value $146,137,000.
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