Figure 1: F.L. and J.C. Olmsted, General Plan for Subdivision of Properties on Brookline Hill, Brookline, MA, 1884, Job No. 1012. Much was constructed as planned and has retained its value today. (courtesy FLONHS)

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Figure 78
Preliminary plan for widening Beacon Street, Brookline, by F. L. and J. C. Olmsted, November 29, 1886. Beacon Street is the straight street in the lower half; Massachusetts

rocker's proposed park system (Figure 23) in the Olmsted's "Massachusetts Avenue" plan, although the route in the later plan is somewhat different, since it could not cross the border into Brookline. The stretch between Winchester Street and

form the connection with Kenmore Square. By the mid-1890s an extension of Commonwealth Avenue, originally called Newton Boulevard, had been built from the reservoir to the Charles River in Auburn-

Figure 81
Section of the first plan for Beacon Street, October 11, 1886, showing a width of 200 feet and a symmetrical layout.

Figure 82
Detail of Figure 78, the plan for Beacon Street as executed. These sections show an asymmetrical arrangement of drives, one bridle path, and a width of 160 feet, except between Washington and Harvard streets.

Figure 78
Preliminary plan for widening Beacon Street, Brookline, by F. L. and J. C. Olmsted, November 29, 1886. Beacon Street is the straight street in the lower half; Massachusetts (later Commonwealth) Avenue is the winding one, upper left.

Figure 87
Beacon Street, looking east at intersection with Saint Paul Street, 1930.

and a plan for the Brookline Land Company (1894, unexecuted, land later used for a playing field). All