page_title: Brandegee Estate
section_title: Description and history
hierarchical_section_title: Brandegee Estate / Description and history
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: americanestatesg00ferr (find matches) Title: American estates and gardens Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: Ferree, Barr, 1862-1924 Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- United States Gardens Publisher: New York, Munn and Company Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: O &lt;: Oi W h wI h OH O2 Q&lt; c«&#160;a, Wh wIh (1331 Text Appearing After Image: oz So&lt;o wXh wasO bi W ec JOO td OS oi J &lt; KU) Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The Brandegee Estate is a historic estate at 280 Newton Street in Brookline and Boston, Massachusetts. Developed at the turn of the 20th century, it is one of the largest essentially intact estate properties in either community. It was developed by Mary Sprague, a direct descendant of Joseph Weld, one of Boston's first settlers, and is noted for its large Renaissance Revival mansion, and landscaping by Charles A. Platt. The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Its name derives from Mary Sprague's second husband, Edward Brandegee.
context_section_description: The Brandegee Estate is located astride the town line between Brookline and the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, and consists of a long strip of land whose western end is on Newton Street in Brookline, and whose eastern end is on Allandale Street in Boston.  Separating most of the estate from Allandale Street to the south is Allandale Farm, the last working farm in Boston.  The developed features are the main house and formal garden, near the center of the estate, and a cluster of service buildings at the eastern end, where the stables and estate office are located.  The stables were until recently used by the City of Boston for its mounted police force.
  The property was owned for many years by the Faulkner family, and was known as Faulkner Farm.  It was acquired by William Fletcher Weld II, cousin to Mary Pratt Sprague.  In 1890 Sprague had built a 2-1/2 story wood frame summer house.  In 1897 she retained Little, Brown & Moore to oversee a major expansion of the house, transforming it into a brick Renaissance Revival mansion.  The house is surrounded by a formal garden designed by Charles A. Platt, many of whose elements still survive despite adaptive reuse of the property.
  The 3-1/2 story mansion built in 1897, enclosing an 1890 house that had been built on the site by Mary Pratt Sprague (later Mrs. Edward Brandegee).  The mansion has elaborate interior decorations, including a dining room paneled in mahogany, a second dining room in oak, and a ballroom with elaborate candelabras and chandeliers, with tapestries by Gobelins.  The house stands on a slight rise, looking over a landscaped formal garden, which included a pool and an open summer house.
caption: Pool and casino, "Faulkner Farm" (1904)
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