1 10 133 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/12583/archive/files/35d7de1e0f52e19b261b384b2b886599.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=ZH2gQ922h-2r78SSudfFLK761tbyH0VTFIFpJnAKOy-poHYMrKvflZC8wHCn8ovbMddDVC4gOVol69T7QAKmKAz6EeZukbGneS0djxjmMVfPH%7E1O14fsiaw9TkEaTYj4A7wjIz9hwn1Ki74FDFS-bIqTLukzM90srZC5%7EarJw7QG9TXielAaYJKrmFy5XorKGdjV3-hvZkNidTfX-n8L1ge9UcN4uTWnESnlrrFzVcka%7EhhUW-IyivWXDsx4LiGJvjjxLnG4MGhuiiyxFXfJS%7EG9Wvs58jLl2FtJIuhGp8cDw4tm8FCzff-3l1cBQR4sIK3oQ-zUjDrR7MT4XfkmOw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM be4e02e5f700f118ecfe344dfea732b9 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 126 Width 189 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource <p>This house on Washington Street at the foot of Gardner Path was one of 25 Blake Park houses designed by Royal Barry Wills and built by Maurice Dunlavy, whose own Wills-designed house was behind it on Weybridge Lane. 490 Washington Street was home initially to Mary McCue (1882-1970), a widow, and her three children.</p> <p>Mary McCue was born in Ireland and came to the United States in 1893. Her husband Robert, a truck driver in the 1920 Census, died some time between 1920 and 1930. In 1930, Mary McCue was doing housework for a private family, while she and her children rented an apartment at 5 High Street Place. <br /><br />The McCues first appeared in the Street List at this address in 1934. John McCue, the son, then 20, was listed as a laborer. The family was listed again the next two years, but then left temporarily, possibly renting the house to another family. <br /><br />George W. and Mary A. Achey were listed here from 1937 to 1940. George Achey's occupation was listed as "milk" the first two years, and clerk the next two. Mary was listed as a waitress in 1939 and a housewife the other three years. The McCues were back in 1941 and continued to own the house until the early 1970s. <br /><br />Barbara McCue, the middle of Mary's three children, was listed as a clerk when the family first returned and was in the U.S. Navy after 1944. Her sister Edith was listed variously as a student and a clerk. John McCue (1913-1968) was in the U.S. Army from 1942 through the end of the war. He later became a foreman for the Brookline Highway Department.</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wills, Royal Barry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1933 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Washington Street Title A name given to the resource 490 Washington Street https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/12583/archive/files/c31ec30a197232944a829931e2c24947.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=IkZKp-EpqpNK9LWx9CJWPyxoD0E1aS6zJ-9vADoIGzolLX7sgCx4oBfs6NbX-3NQpIeLgrvQ2bTBF4BiJucosvJVvSs9a55ebEi%7EHaD-5P9h%7EWOiD6TxojR9gg5fe1uFZvaoRxfk7j5tqUhVq0A22P68liAWS%7E1-Y3ItFMjYJG46sH%7E-LWsax3YxDR0LZIWOpmNGbJOhP3GL-k28oP9SjelOdTWtxfL7OPE5GlmbPcXyZ2mM0WFyXbSRRsEG6WHVesA5lGQ%7E5pdDxw6WyLPM2IofL-FoMx-RKLULB185Eds4K5v5cZqMbutNZI3QfwrWdR9mQMMT6zb1jsMTAbuwaw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM ca946eaf42962f91831c2deeef0b4829 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 21 Lowell Road Description An account of the resource <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td> <div> </div> </td> </tr></tbody></table><table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td> <div>Year Built:<br /> Permit Date:</div> </td> <td>1928<br /> 4/20/1928</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Architect:</div> </td> <td>Royal Barry Wills</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Builder:</div> </td> <td>Maurice A. Dunlavy</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Cost to Build:</div> </td> <td>$15,000</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Owner <br /> (On Permit Date):</div> </td> <td>Maurice A. Dunlavy</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>First Residents:</div> </td> <td>The Harrington Family</td> </tr></tbody></table><br />This house, like all of the houses on Lowell Road with the exception of the pre-development 8-10 and 12-14 Lowell, was built by Maurice Dunlavy and designed by <a href="http://blakepark.omeka.net/items/browse?tags=Royal+Barry+Wills">Royal Barry Wills.</a> <br /><br />21 Lowell Road was home to members of the Harrington family from the time it was built until the early 1960s. Mary Harrington (nee Dempsey; 1869-1958) moved in initially with her son William and his wife Alice and their three children. William (1895-1983) was a manager of a petroleum products company. <br /><br />The 1930 U.S. Census shows the residents as: Wiliam E. Harringon, 35, office manager (petroleum products); Alice H. Harrington, 31; Paul D. Harrington, 2; William E. Harrington, 6; Joan Harrington, &lt;1; Mary D. Harrington, 60, (mother); and Theresa Foley, 24, a servant, born Irish Free State. The house was valued at $25,000. <br /><br />Around 1931, William and his family moved away and his brother Francis D. Harrington, together with his wife Anna and their two children, moved in with Mary Harrington. They had been living nearby on Gorham Road. Francis was a salesman, listed as assistant division manager with a truck company in the 1930 U.S. Census. He was later listed in the Street List as a salesman and an executive. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1928 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/12583/archive/files/3da572c431a54ffb51e6ed5ad50fe8ff.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=NMMpLvVsukh0VoS5I6x-03gJPBn4bB3WUkty0yMPQ7q68myHROlYKxurxgVsZVbsiR8cB9E2RJhFgPqPpSnheCsVpTv1p4mF38CmXu-wJ-BFm7Cu-y7qv9NxB5ttOmeIn8sP1Y6BfF5qICcV2npIfcrMgts0El-iivgVnQIABTTbA-WY0zNwy8WdBGyCmW4ZQI7Nme0fuG6R7yKRps5sgiZPtrXUO1LsjpIdXD0YPrCKfXXkKYFHxyLGMWEaWJ79Bf0v2w4VJ%7EF29qyN-0zSBVOIZTaNS2vo2LxJQpmkJjpa6xg1hw7VJf9Ly4b50G6qABZ7nF8pMDXZ0KrzDLAySQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM bbb784c1e78be0096d13c78567264a16 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8 Lowell Road Description An account of the resource <p>The origins of the building now known as 8-10 Lowell Road are not entirely clear, but the best evidence indicates it was once the carriage barn of the family of Mary and Robert Sharp Davis on Cypress Place (now Stanton Road.) In the 1897 map at right, taken from the town atlas of that year, the barn is the L-shaped building at lower left, just above the words "Heirs of Mary S. Davis." The Davis house is to its right, on Cypress Place.</p> <p>Robert Sharp Davis was a book publisher whose company produced many books used in 19th century schools. He died in 1874, and his widow Mary died shortly before the date of this map.</p> <p>The street extending to the house from Washington Street is the beginning of what would become Greenough Street, laid out a few years before through land acquired by the Blake family the previous decade.</p> <p>The pathways leading into the Blake estate from Washington Street and Cypress Place can be seen at the top of the map.</p> <p>In 1899, the Town of Brookline laid out a new road from Washington Street to Gorham Road. It followed the path of the road begun by the Blakes, already known, unofficially, as Greenough Street, and then cut across the Davis estate. The Davis house was either torn down or moved, and the estate received $2,500 in compensation from the town. In the map below, taken from the 1900 town atlas, the Davis house is gone, and the newly extended Greenough Street crosses right in front of the barn.</p> <p>The next town atlas from 1907 (below) shows several changes. The Davis property north of Greenough Street has been acquired by Frances Blake, except the portion to the left which has been split off into two new parcels and sold to other owners. Lowell Road has not yet been laid out, but the future 8-10 Lowell Road is shown in its present location. It appears, from the shape and angle of the building, to be the Davis barn, minus the long ell and moved back from Greenough Street.</p> <p>As early as 1911, various butlers and coachmen were shown in the Brookline Street List as living "off Greenough," or on "Greenough Street within," designations that seems to have been applied to the Blake stables as well as to 8-10 and 12-14 Lowell before that street was laid out. It's unclear how many of them might have been living in what is now 8-10 Lowell.</p> <p>Thomas O'Connor, the Blake chauffer, and Abbie Paige, a teacher, were listed at "off Greenough" or "Greenough Street within" and then, briefly, at 10 Lowell Road before reappearing at 55 &amp; 57 Greenough Street, a house that was moved from Lowell Road in 1921 or 1922. See 55-57 Greenough Street for more on them.</p> <p>For several years beginning in 1923 or '24, the residents of 8 Lowell Road were Sara Stites and Helen Hodge. Sara Henry Stites (1877-1967) was a professor of economics at Simmons College, where she began teaching in 1912. She was acting dean of the college from 1921-1923 and later was chair of the division of social studies. A Pennsylvania native, Stites graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1899 and earned an MA there in 1900. After studying economics and geography at the Sorbonne and the University of Leipzig in 1901 and 1902, she returned to Bryn Mawr to complete a Ph.D. in 1904. Stites was the author of a well-received book, published in 1905, on "Economics of the Iroquois."</p> <p>Helen Henry Hodge (1877-????) was, like Stites, born in Pennsylvania in 1877 and graduated from Bryn Mawr (AB 1900, MA 1903.) (Both women were also the daughters of ministers.) Stites and Hodge were co-principals of a private school, the Wilkes Barre Institute in Pennsylvania, from 1904 to 1912 when Stites began teaching at Simmons and they moved to Massachusetts.</p> <p>Hodge was listed as a teacher in the 1920 U.S. Census, though no occupation was listed in the 1930 Census or in the Brookline Street List. Stites and Hodges may have been cousins. They shared the middle name "Henry" which was the family name of Stites' mother.</p> <p>Stites also had an adopted son, Francis Blanchard Henry Stites, whom she adopted in 1923 when he was three-years old, around the time they moved to Lowell Road. In a 1945 Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Stites noted how she had spoken, at her 25th class reunion some 20 years before, of her experience as an unmarried mother. Her son, she reported in the Bulletin, had just embarked on a career as an electrical engineer.</p> <p>Stites and Henry were listed at this address in the Street List from 1924 through 1930. They later lived in Wayland, MA. The 1930 U.S. Census lists the residents as: Sara H. Stites, 52, teacher (college); Helen H. Hodge, 52; and Francis B. Henry, 9.</p> <p>No one was listed at this address for three years after Stites and Hodges left. There followed a succession of doctors and their families, none of whom stayed for very long. They included:</p> <ul><li>Dr. Robert Fleming and his wife Jean, listed in 1935.</li> <li>Dr. Phillips Shambaugh and his wife Sarah, listed 1936-37</li> <li>Dr. Ashton Graybiel and his wife Moira, listed 1938-1940. Ashton Graybiel was a cardiologist and expert in aviation medicine. He later worked with the U.S. space program, and as director of research for the Naval School of Aviation Medicine was one of the physicians who examined John Glenn after his historic 1962 flight into orbit.</li> <li>Dr. Joseph Burchenal and his wife Margaret, listed in 1941. Joseph Burchenal received a fellowship to study cancer after World War II and later retired as director of clinical investigation at Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York.</li> </ul><p>After another gap, Edda and R. Gordon Gould were listed at this address beginning in 1944. Gordon Gould was in the army in 1944 and was listed as a teacher in 1946.</p> <p><strong>Note</strong>: For the residents of the other half of this house, see 10 Lowell Road.</p> https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/12583/archive/files/29c970c0dd0d8b359419a6d61bd46cc4.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=RdNFLqCqzbvkjHGB2aKYJdAFPUyiRTEKOXsbEfaKNcthkesqZV78Zp5dV8nrYzB8rqCYOFihpikEzaohA9uNyaKUipvn18hEfWUufKOAUNeSY3bNkjGJKEMQOVlv5yCKadY19pq3MHZx3lKz2Yk9FgkSnBf-ebDJG05Sox6xgTzYE1Xi69v2M6IryD%7E9hM9I%7E1RzA3qSmJJLbMz1Js%7EAGqVzH0AXpmuIhr8Zk9UVN-7p26D%7Exn%7Eb15OgtaAl2tKgIgXqXGH%7EfJx-kwyyKgfP6WK8cDqeKWo24jBiylWk3FWeFGBoDcLi8T-2dnzLgLfoVUxM4mJq-vpfA0bO1aJB-A__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 57eab5a33884cf37c5852b70ddd4ddfa Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 17 Lowell Road Description An account of the resource <table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td> <div>Year Built:<br />Permit Date:</div> </td> <td>1927<br />11/28/1927</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Architect:</div> </td> <td>Royal Barry Wills</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Builder:</div> </td> <td>Maurice A. Dunlavy</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Cost to Build:</div> </td> <td>$14,000</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Owner <br />(On Permit Date):</div> </td> <td>Maurice A. Dunlavy</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>First Residents:</div> </td> <td>Virginia &amp; Francis Snow</td> </tr></tbody></table><br />This house, like all of the houses on Lowell Road with the exception of the pre-development 8-10 and 12-14 Lowell, was built by Maurice Dunlavy and designed by Royal Barry Wills. <br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/GwkEYyG.png" alt="Francis+Snow&lt;/" align="right" />The first residents of 17 Lowell Road, listed in the Street List from 1929 to 1943, were Virginia and Francis Snow and their daughters Virginia and Frances. The Snows were a musical family. Francis Snow (1890-1961) was the longtime organist, music director, and choir master at Boston's Trinity Church. His wife Virginia (1886-1972) taught cello at the New England Conservatory, and both daughters played the flute. (The younger daughter, Frances — later Frances Drinker (1921-1994) — also taught at the Conservatory.) <br /><br />After leaving Lowell Road, the Snows lived for a time around the corner at 87 Greenough Street. <br /><br />Following the Snows at this address for a short time were Walter E. Cohen, his son Laurence and daughter Adele Rabinowitz (born c1914) and Adele's husband Sidney Rabinowitz. Walter Cohen was born in Russia c1883 and came to the U.S. in 1892. He owned a millinery shop in 1920, but was listed as a realtor when he first appeared at this address in the Street List. (He was shown as retired the next year). Laurence Cohen (born 1920) was in the Army at the time the family moved to Lowell Road. Sidney Rabinowitz (born c1913) was a wholesaler. 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Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photo Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 12 Lowell Road Description An account of the resource <table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td> <div>Year Built:</div> </td> <td>1910</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Architect:</div> </td> <td>Thorndike &amp; Kiesling</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Builder:</div> </td> <td>Burton W. Neal</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Cost to Build:</div> </td> <td>N/A</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Owner <br /> (On Permit Date):</div> </td> <td>Mrs. Arthur W. Blake</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>First Residents:</div> </td> <td>N/A</td> </tr></tbody></table><br />The origins of 12-14 Lowell Road, like those of its neighbor at 8-10 Lowell, are not entirely clear. The best evidence indicates that the house was built in 1910. The original building permits are missing from town records, but a card indicates that four separate permits were issued for Frances Blake between September and December of that year for construction of a dwelling at "50 off Greenough Street." <br /><br />It seems likely that this is the same house that is now 12-14 Lowell Road. ("Off Greenough Street" and "Greenough Street within" were used for buildings located where Lowell Road is today before that street was laid out in 1916.) Excerpts from town atlas maps, below, show that the house was not there in 1907 but was there in 1913. (Today's 8-10 Lowell -- the building with the X in it -- can be seen in both maps.) <p><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/12583/archive/fullsize/91f220b8df57f0a61a628eb9744ab12d.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&amp;Expires=1507943711&amp;Signature=RamGrZXRNwPoX5WhGO7NyFXFMNM%3D" alt="91f220b8df57f0a61a628eb9744ab12d.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&amp;Expires=1507943711&amp;Signature=RamGrZXRNwPoX5WhGO7NyFXFMNM%3D" /></p> As early as 1911, various butlers and coachmen were shown in the Brookline Street List as living "off Greenough," or on "Greenough Street within." It's unclear how many of them might have been living in what is now 12-14 Lowell. <br /><br />The builder of the house, according to the information recorded from the 1910 permits, was Burton W. Neal. Neal, a prominent Brookline builder and businessman, also worked for the Blakes on the former barn that became 128 Gardner Road. <br /><br />The architects of the house were listed as "Thorndike &amp; Kiesling." The evidence is spotty, but "Thorndike" may have been Frances Blake's nephew John Thorndike who was, in any case, the first person shown in the Brookline Street List as living at this address (although not until 1922.) <p><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/12583/archive/fullsize/78a0a973acf19f6e9966b01d7e898224.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&amp;Expires=1507943019&amp;Signature=DkhLnfzOEbl2UEWmuhac9SA0WJA%3D" style="float:left;margin-right:3px;" alt="78a0a973acf19f6e9966b01d7e898224.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&amp;Expires=1507943019&amp;Signature=DkhLnfzOEbl2UEWmuhac9SA0WJA%3D" />John Richard Thorndike, left, (born c1883) was the son of Frances Blake's sister, Florence Greenough Thorndike, and John L. Thorndike, a prominent Boston lawyer. He graduated from Harvard in 1904 and then studied architecture at MIT. He was active in dog circles as a breeder, exhibitor, and judge, and literally wrote the book on Irish Terriers, a 1925 publication called "<a href="http://www.irishterriers.com/welcome.htm?thorndike.htm">The Irish Terrier Standard Simplified</a>" that was considered the classic work on that breed.</p> Thorndike was living in Southboro, MA in 1921, but moved to Brookline shortly before or after his marriage that year to Caroline L. Wyeth of New York. (The wedding, in New York in June, was "one of the most talked of society weddings of that year," according to the <em>New York Times</em>.) <br /><br />The Thorndikes had a son, John, born in 1922. The Thorndike family was listed in the Street List at 12 Lowell Road from 1922 to 1924. (John was listed by himself in 1922, and with Caroline the other two years. Also listed at the address in 1923 was Norman Riley, a "kennel man.") John continued to maintain a country estate in Southboro. <br /><br />The Thorndikes were divorced in 1926. Caroline Thorndike, according to a newspaper story, reported that her husband, while intoxicated, had "several times retired to a barn of their estate, taking a revolver with him and threatening to shoot himself." (Tragically, the Thorndike's son, suffering from what the newspapers described as a "nervous condition," would himself commit suicide soon after becoming a father some 17 or 18 years later.) <br /><br />Caroline Thorndike was granted custody of their son and $300 a month in alimony as a result of the divorce settlement. Caroline lived in Brookline after the divorce, although it is not clear where. She later remarried. John R. Thorndike died sometime before 1941. <br /><br />The next residents of 12 Lowell Road, Harrison L. and Olive S. Harley, were listed there in the Street List with the Thorndikes in 1924 and again, without the Thorndikes, in 1925. Harrison Harley (1887-1975) was a professor of philosophy and psychology at Simmons College, where he began teaching in 1921. Later in his career, he was caught up in the "Red Scare" of the 1940s and forced to defend himself repeatedly against charges of Communist sympathies. <br /><br />Frances Blake's son-in-law Frederick L.W. Richardson was listed at this address, with the Harleys but without his wife Anne, in 1925. There was no one listed the next two years, but Frederick and Anne Richardson were listed here together in the 1928 and 1929 Street Lists. (Anne Blake Richardson died in 1930.) <br /><br />Newly-married Phoebe and Charles B. Barnes Jr. were the next residents of 12 Lowell, living here for five years. Both were listed in the 1930 Street List, and Phoebe (born c1909) alone from 1931 to 1934. (Charles' omission seems to be an error.) Charles Barnes Jr. (c1901-1980) was a lawyer with his father's firm, Hemenway &amp; Barnes. The 1930 U.S. Census listed the residents as: Charles B. Barnes, 29, lawyer; Phoebe W. Barnes, 21; and Signes E. Wright, 21, domestic (born Sweden). They were paying $100 a month in rent. <br /><br />Jean Fleming, about whom no further information is available, was listed next, for one year, followed by Frances T. Slade, listed from 1938 to 1941. Frances' husband, Winthrop Slade Jr., was listed with her for the first two of those years. (Winthrop was listed as an oil burner salesman in the 1930 U.S. Census, before he was married. The Street List showed him as a broker and a salesman during the two years he was listed.) Frances Slade was listed as a housewife for all but one year, 1939, when she was listed as an author. She may have been the "Mrs. Frances Slade" who wrote the book "Divorce If You Must" in 1938. (That might also explain why her husband was no longer listed the following year.) <br /><br />The next residents, listed here in 1942 and 1943, were John H. and Cornelia E. Dingle, who moved here from Boston. John Holmes Dingle (1908-1973) was a doctor and bacteriologist who worked at Children's Hosptital beginning in 1939. He was in the Army Medical Corps during World War II and was later director of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Cornelia Dingle (born c1907) may have worked with her husband. (She was listed as a bacteriologist in one of the two years she was in the Street List.) <br /><br />The last residents of 12 Lowell Road during the period covered by this survey were John B. and Ruth M. Graham. They were listed here for just a few years beginning in 1944. John Graham was a physician. <br /><br /><strong>Note:</strong> For the residents of the other half of this house, see 14 Lowell Road. https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/12583/archive/files/fb2ac7e91ce239b2782e7c8148615a96.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=R1V6fhOLnbbYJo9U2SwMlZU8rfUmmyZrRVu-V9Xy1taq5LNU1UM2Bi1UaTOVitWvLER6NIk0Vl83ZOSKXEKkghECzIbcMHMWDpc60FriH5CNagfAvYAxa3Nu-Apv1e%7EXQN1Y1dXlUApLtzi6NTRrHYaAVYQw30eWZ-SC94T5VlrfGnd2FP2g-%7EA0d5X2Arz7S7tL54XM1akSK6s40%7Erv%7EDXGTqbmo18HFbwWLfmm6snDCP01LorxSqHoauKytUxO1fhz8OREDJ5FqiO-cz6jri9PTslTNDWSv3vTKR2b%7EeWxGeEe2oqL2yLslk8XZvWbbWbkgTboKQ7yd-bSaZ3yVg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM aa8ec4e5072a216338815939c04bdedf Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photo Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 14 Lowell Road Description An account of the resource <table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td> <div>Year Built:</div> </td> <td>1910</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Architect:</div> </td> <td>Thorndike &amp; Kiesling</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Builder:</div> </td> <td>Burton W. Neal</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Cost to Build:</div> </td> <td>N/A</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Owner <br /> (On Permit Date):</div> </td> <td>Mrs. Arthur W. Blake</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>First Residents:</div> </td> <td>N/A</td> </tr></tbody></table><p>14 Lowell Road is in the same house as 12 Lowell. See <a href="http://blakepark.omeka.net/items/show/21">12 Lowell Road</a> for the history of the house itself and the people who lived at that address. The residents of 14 Lowell are described on this page.</p> <p>As early as 1911, various butlers and coachmen were shown in the Brookline Street List as living "off Greenough," or on "Greenough Street within," early names for what later became Lowell Road. It's unclear how many of them might have been living in what is now 12-14 Lowell.</p> <p>In the early 1920s this half of the house, like the other half, was home to a relative of Frances Greenough Blake, in this case her first cousin Mary Elizabeth Huntington (1840-1923). (Her mother and Frances Blake's father were siblings.)</p> <p>The 1920 U.S. Census and the 1921 Brookline Street List showed Huntington and two other women living at 4 Greenough Street Within. The same three were shown at 14 Lowell Road in the 1922 and 1923 Street Lists, which indicates that it was the same dwelling with a new address applied after the laying out of Lowell Road.</p> <p>The other women listed here were Ada E. Chevalier (born c1875), a teacher at the Pierce School in Brookline, and Johanna (or Joanna) T. Butler (born c1860?). Butler apparently took care of Mary Huntington. (She was listed as a nurse in the 1920 Census and as a companion in the 1921-1923 Street Lists.)</p> <p>Also listed here were Katherine Sidley, a servant (listed in 1920 only) and Agnes Brennan, a maid (listed from 1921 to 1923).</p> <p>An elderly widow, J. Eleanor Low (or Lowe) (born c1842) was listed at 14 Lowell Road from 1924 to 1933. Mary T. Weafer (born c1853), who had been a servant for Low before she moved here, was listed with her at this address until 1928, and another woman, Mary Walsh (born c1870) was listed with Low from 1928 to 1933 and continued to be listed for one more year after Low was gone in 1934. There were also various maids, a nurse, and a companion listed with them in different years.</p> <p>The 1930 U.S. Census listed the residents as: Edward G. Lowe, 88 (an error, but she may have been Mrs. Edward G. Low or Lowe); Mary Walsh, 58, cook, born Irish Free State; and Julia Sullivan, 55, servant. The rent was $80 per month.</p> <p>No one was listed at this address in 1935 and 1936. From 1937 to 1939, the residents were Henry D. and Adelaide L. Stevens. Henry Stevens (born c1902) was a banker.</p> <p>Following the Stevenses were Ernest Jacoby (born c 1912), an accountant, and his mother Alice. They moved here from 169 Walnut Street, and members of the family were listed at this address until the late 1950s.</p> <p><strong>Note:</strong> For the residents of the other half of this house, see <a href="http://blakepark.omeka.net/items/show/21">12 Lowell Road</a>.</p> https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/12583/archive/files/d3b7257923b1b0e7173810db59cc30b8.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=FNIpgfPmMf0EN%7E2r3ltqdE7yu3VLGpHfm3LolYdkk-wuxlFcHBNDKUTMvvsNRY6zQ7ud071hSOzf7%7EHgompXxNtLo0OZ10EheodAzfiKOt8UtOOl94sVuK%7Ez89s41i1Zz7Za12lY6f-45xOgvt-tVLmrsFIYibcrTookEE9foVw9Au3q8i7QKhFHChFQgoa7eRjT4FmTwM7zktSsZLnIQTv4OB4mI3T5VFDTdF6iPnzUony2Sc-sMnrR88BhxKGFw9VfHL38PmYsLUtQar1xaLjJAO6vdx3xOVP5JgnwKCwpx6e5T1yY7utxPJdvsJhEaoxDN6xn7g4HWin0zbbj4A__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 6081d50e8c1965d85351bf16ba40c90c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 11 Lowell Road Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1927 Description An account of the resource <p><img alt="" src="http://blakepark.omeka.net/admin/files/show/25" style="float:right;width:274px;height:300px;" />Philip Drinker (1894-1972) the co-inventor of the iron lung, was a professor of industrial hygiene at the Harvard School of Public Health. Son of a former president of Lehigh University, Drinker graduated from Lehigh in 1917 and began teaching at Harvard in 1921. In 1928, working with his brother Cecil (later dean of the Harvard School of Public Health) and fellow professor Louis Agassiz Shaw, he developed the artificial breathing machine and first used it on an eight-year old girl at Boston's Children's Hospital.</p> <p>"Another chance soon came," according to a biography of Drinker in Science and Its Times, "when Barret Hoyt, a Harvard senior, was dying from polio because his lungs were paralyzed."</p> <blockquote> <p>The student's physician [the account continued] begged Drinker to bring the machine to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. The big machine would not fit in a taxi, and they had no time to get a truck. They finally tied the iron lung to the top of the cab and made it to the hospital just before the patient arrived. Hoyt was barely breathing, but the machine forced air in and out of his lungs for four weeks. The "iron lung" never faltered and immediately became standard equipment to help people not only with polio, but with all types of respiratory failure, including gas poisoning and acute alcoholism. The iron lung became known as the "Drinker Respirator."</p> </blockquote> <p>The device was credited with saving hundreds of lives and was particularly valuable prior to the introduction of the Salk vaccine for polio in 1955. In addition to his work on the iron lung, Drinker did pioneering work on occupational medicine, air pollution, and bioengineering. He died in 1972.</p> <p>Susan Drinker (1899-1997) was born in Rhode Island and married Philip Drinker c1925. In the 1930 U.S. Census, the residents of the house were listed as: Phillip Drinker, 35, professor (education); Susan A. Drinker, 30; Susan G. Drinker, 2; and Mary E. Drinker, &lt;1; plus two servants, Sadie F. McLeod, 44, nurse, born Canada, and Jeane Crowel, 28, cook, born Canada. The house was valued at $20,000.</p> <p>Following the Drinkers at 11 Lowell Road was the family of Harold and Marie Coughlin, listed here in the Street List from 1935 to 1941. Harold Coughlin was a cotton salesman.</p> <p>The next owners of this house, living here for nearly 60 years, were Helen and Aryeh "Dick" Friedman. Dick Friedman (1904-1999) was in the real estate business for many years and was town assessor for Brookline from 1965 to 1975.</p> <p>Helen Loesar Friedman (1909-2002) was born in Buffalo and came to Boston to attend Simmons College, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in social work. A social worker for more than 40 years, she worked for several local agencies, including Boston Family Services, the Boston Association for Retarded Children, the New England Memorial Society, and the Florence Crittenton Hastings House.</p> <p>The Friedmans had four children. Their son Dick, who followed his father into the real estate business, is the developer of the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, the Marriott Courtyard in Coolidge Corner, and other properties.<br /><br /><em>Photo courtesy of Children's Hospital, Boston</em></p> https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/12583/archive/files/884e9ac17aca328874a85ac10dfd7383.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=knREfTxu%7EqSqkElRugLmiNILEP0sKq3V7h56-8YkTEXaii0EQd8ZXqUQjFaXunTzW6GOR-7vz8x0SHCsbGx2p0IkUrXrgjCo1Xc-Mss-ZdkmqvjnvD-oTgbQqVxXTFxRUdUFjvYQgC7rLZZaxgxwN8c8Z84Z442DY29uyOM7Gk02F3HB4bTs4OPrniFtKZCXVeX-ZS6S3JW9Gmc5iOGhJ0hwquVHNcB4f2zO0MS1bAcySm5Fr7lmvIOM48ylxZn08vBwSIH7B7GwUTCJYGI1xWG2UgQdW9sHe174JpfA11ATcn-HAq56BkQC6TvWrPBAqgkBAORkPZEbACaGrVXqgQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 01adf5a882a6faed9d1b3ff957d4ba88 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 55-57 Greenough Street Description An account of the resource <table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td> <div>Year Built:</div> </td> <td>1854-1856</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>First Resident at this Address:</div> </td> <td>Abbie L. Paige and Thomas &amp; Mary O'Connor</td> </tr></tbody></table><p>One of a handful of pre-1900 buildings in Blake Park, this house was originally the carriage house of the Robert Sharp Davis house that is now 50 Stanton Road. It was separated from the house by the construction of Greenough Street. A 1922 permit was issued for its conversion from a stable to a garage with an apartment overhead.</p> <p>The first residents of this house on Greenough Street lived in other Blake-owned properties on what became Lowell Road. Abbie L. Paige and Thomas and Mary O'Connor were listed at 1 Greenough Street Within in the 1921 Street List. ("Greenough Street Within" and "Off Greenough Street" were used to refer to the area of the Blake stables before Lowell Road was developed and named.) In 1922, the O'Connors were listed at 10 Lowell Road and Paige was listed next door at 14 Lowell Road..</p> <p><img src="http://brooklinehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/blake-park-brookline-ma/item/27" align="left" style="margin-right:3px;" alt="Abbie L. Paige" /></p> <p>Abbie Louise Paige (1872-1960) was a Taunton native and a Wellesley College graduate who had a long affilliation with that school. She was president from 1918 to 1940 of the Wellesley Students' Aid Society, an organization that disbursed loans and gifts to students having trouble covering their expenses. The spirit of the students, she told the Christian Science Monitor in a 1926 profile, "pays me for the work involved. I am working with young people, full of promise, and working in the midst of the beauty of Wellesley. I feel that there could not be a more satisfying kind of avocation."</p> <p>Paige also worked with young people in Brookline. She taught Latin at Brookline High School for several years (and briefly in St. Louis, Missouri) and later ran the A.L. Paige Tutorial School -- most likely out of her house on Greenough Street. There she tutored students in Latin and other subjects in preparation for college entrance exams.</p> <p><img src="https://photos-5.dropbox.com/t/2/AACnQdyFFCQHuRjlLQ5M02UaiHA6lxuuVzrZzYVAgBv-bg/12/361241692/jpeg/32x32/1/_/1/2/AbbieLPageolder.jpg/EM3wwuwFGBMgBygH/AhZjMcuwvdUSZ9HSOi4qAZI6IfpQ3e0rJ5SYCS1DmB4?size=2048x1536&amp;size_mode=3" align="right" style="margin-left:3px;" alt="Abbie L. Paige" /></p> <p>"Boys and girls of Brookline, Mass.," reported the Monitor, "know Miss Paige as a tutor who, sitting in her little brown house in a tangle of syringa bushes, is able quietly to draw the sting of college entrance examinations." The tutoring school, according to Paige's 1960 obituary in the Wellesley Townsman, "gave Miss Paige what she felt was her richest and most rewarding teaching experience."</p> <p>Abbie Paige lived at 55 Greenough Street until moving to the Hotel Brunswick in Boston in 1948.</p> <p>Thomas and Mary O'Connor were both born in Ireland. Thomas (born c1876) came to the U.S. in 1904 and Mary (born c1882) in 1905, and they were married around 1917. They had two sons, John and Thomas Jr.</p> <p>Thomas O'Connor was a chauffer, most likely the chauffer for the Blake family. He was listed at "off 62 Greenough Street" in the Street List in 1919 and 1920, then at 1 Greenough Street Within and 10 Lowell Road in 1921 and 1922. The family was not listed the next two years before reappearing at 57 Greenough Street.</p> <p>The 1930 U.S. Census lists the residents of 57 Greenough as: Thomas O'Connor, 54, chauffer (private family), born Irish Free state; Mary O'Connor, 48, born Irish Free state; Thomas L. O'Connor, 8; and John J. O'Connor, 11. As noted above, they were paying $35 a month in rent.</p> <p>The O'Connors continued to be listed at this address in the Street List through 1937. They were followed by the family of Allen and Ethel Austin, who were listed from 1938 until after World War II. Allen Austin was also a chauffer. It's possible he succeeded Thomas O'Connor in that role for the Blake family, although he continued to be listed as a chauffer after the death of Frances Blake and the sale of rest of the estate in 1939.</p> <p>The Austins had two grown daughters and a young son living with them at the time they moved to Greenough Street. One daughter, Anna, worked as a secretary and stenographer. Her sister Alice was listed at various times as a waitress and a dietician. She left the home in the early 1940s, but returned with her husband Harold Phillips, who was then in the army, in 1945. The Austins also had a young son, Allan Jr.</p> https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/12583/archive/files/bd67184ff3a8d7c61b8d67c3ef983e2b.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=ZwI-EBUQ-tR3gRuNUeWHIweA9msWJET%7EQxA6YhBqqNnslPIYWTOXH70rQVBpMMCobcn4bwKD-C1Nf0JWslX2oDQhlmFmB3nCLdlet64eutLr94yYKjuZTcd7oersM4Yr-aJfZmkoSamh-BcQl-D5-zclUqWfUA2nj0AvHu-7qpmtvNBu8wqwtEIJh4CvG9AtyEGtAFsIAKxxPvJs5cLkzn0WxwMD4HGovWErV3I9SSMAG12pmgiJZhbU43cyWxOvdJxivANedXoStv98Va548JnlHLetd7Q7UwHUHmC%7EkB7dmk6-6EkKgzCWjTQ0acood-1oEOjTg34IPgHjqQ8C3Q__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 4e30dda5273728eae7a0614356a0e34f Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photo Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 22 Lowell Road Description An account of the resource <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td></td> </tr></tbody></table><table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td>Year Built:<br />Permit Date:</td> <td>1928<br />2/21/1928</td> </tr><tr><td>Architect:</td> <td>Royal Barry Wills</td> </tr><tr><td>Builder:</td> <td>Maurice A. Dunlavy</td> </tr><tr><td>Cost to Build:</td> <td>$15,000</td> </tr><tr><td>Owner <br />(On Permit Date):</td> <td>Maurice A. Dunlavy</td> </tr><tr><td>First Residents:</td> <td>Francis C. &amp; Margaret W. Rogerson</td> </tr></tbody></table><p>This house, like all of the houses on Lowell Road with the exception of the pre-development 8-10 and 12-14 Lowell, was built by Maurice Dunlavy and designed by Royal Barry Wills.</p> <p>22 Lowell Road was the home of Francis C. (1889-1965) and Margaret W. Rogerson (1895-1991) and their family, who were listed at this address in the Street List from 1929 to 1940. Francis Rogerson was a banker. His father, Charles, was president of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Francis' brother Henry lived at 37 Lowell. The Rogersons had a son, Francis Jr.</p> <p>The 1930 U.S. Census listed the residents as: Francis C. Rogerson, 40, trust officer (bank); Margaret W. Rogerson, 34; Francis C. Rogerson, 1; and Christine McCharles (?), 38, maid, born Canada.</p> <p>Listed next at this address, in 1941 and 1942, were Albert and Florence Cerf and Alice Bloomberg, all previously at 1223 Beacon Street, and Leo and Esther Gordon, previously in Brighton. Esther and Florence were probably sisters and most likely daughters or nieces of Alice Bloomberg. Albert Cerf was listed as a broker; Leo Gordon was listed as a salesman; and Esther Gordon was listed as a chemist one year and a technician the next.</p> <p>Edith R. and Samuel J. Katz were the next residents, listed her from 1943 until the late 1960s. Samuel was listed variously as a salesman, convertor, manufacturer, and executive in the 1940s.</p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1928 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/12583/archive/files/70bb88b61fc770f28bb90bdf713612df.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=lImI6mj-ef1jK6u49kg34bDgeeWD0hA5EGN%7EDG-%7EuqHiAfBg5Ti5%7ERNdF9oz3RcH61JPFWXjwXp-RZz1XutNsWts3v03pEGbrtWPpP8PqkU8NDtD3QxqQbQwek3fbxhNrnN7u6osOilJ4n6wVKwYvRu2ckc-kS2i87MqA8Zq3yWFFHbPdPdPQz-XERZMDwpP8AkDODuY-kTVUdcYgmZ1Fa%7ECbEYMXMT1jpfB3sfEmEtcXSU2inqMgaDfRuoJYc-STzME1dwuT4Zi8Dkisdfre76rdTAd6orAzogPtudRykv3g01m4bYSHcGkZBR22%7Eg4dFGD5Q7eSeMYP-iTt4jI1Q__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 8d18fd3497a95888a0f3c016cde4147e Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 29 Lowell Road Description An account of the resource <table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td> <div>Year Built:<br /> Permit Date:</div> </td> <td>1929<br /> 4/6/1929</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Architect:</div> </td> <td>Royal Barry Wills</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Builder:</div> </td> <td>Maurice A. Dunlavy</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Cost to Build:</div> </td> <td>$20,000</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>Owner <br /> (On Permit Date):</div> </td> <td>W.H. Haker, 50 Marshall Street</td> </tr><tr><td> <div>First Residents:</div> </td> <td>Walter &amp; Maude Haker</td> </tr></tbody></table><p>This house, like all of the houses on Lowell Road with the exception of the pre-development 8-10 and 12-14 Lowell, was built by Maurice Dunlavy and designed by Royal Barry Wills.</p> <p>29 Lowell Road, one of the last two houses built on Lowell Road, was the home initially of Walter and Maud Haker. Walter Haker, born in Ohio in 1884, came to Massachusetts some time before World War I and got into the real estate business. (His draft registration card from 1917 or 1918 shows him working as a building superintendent for Harry Squires, who moved to 61 Blake Road couple of years after the Hakers moved here.)</p> <p>Living with the Hakers as a lodger at this address for much of the time they were here was Henry Klous, head of a wool manufacturing firm in Lawrence, MA from about 1885 until about 1941. (He was probably Maud Haker's father.) Klous, like Harry Squires, was involved, perhaps as a middle man, in some of the complicated real estate transactions that led to the transfer of ownership of the Blake Park properties to the Interurban Estates after the collapse of the Inter-City Trust.</p> <p>The Hakers were in the Street List at this address from 1930 to 1938. Klous was listed with them in 1931 to 1933 and again in 1937 and 1938. The 1930 U.S. Census listed the residents as: Walter H. Haker, 42, real estate broker, born Ohio; Maud Haker, 42; Henry Klous, 66, (lodger), wool manufacturer; and Harriett McLain, 19, servant, born Canada. The house was valued at $16,000.</p> <p>Following the Hakers and Klaus at 29 Lowell were Louis K. and Flora K. Diamond, previously at 93 Toxteth Street. Louis Diamond (1902-1999) who the New York Times called "a pediatric legend" when he died, was a pioneer in the treatment of blood diseases in children, earning him the sobriquet "father of pediatric hematology."</p> <p>Diamond was born in the Ukraine and came to the U.S. at the age of 2. Growing up in Manhattan, he came to Massachusetts to attend Harvard (Class of 1923) and the Harvard Medical School (M.D. 1927). He was for many years professor of pediatrics at Harvard and assistant chief of staff at Children's Hospital. From 1948 to 1950, he was on leave as medical director of the American Red Cross' National Blood Program.</p> <p>Diamond and his wife Flora (1906-1998), a teacher and linguist, had two children. Their son Jared (1937- ) is a physiologist and a biologist and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning <em>Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies</em> (1997) and other books.</p> <p>The Diamond family lived on Lowell Road until 1968 when Louis Diamond retired from Harvard and took a position as adjunct professor of pediatrics at the University of California in San Francisco.</p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1929