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257 Appendix i Town Green and Green Hill Properties with Olmsted Connections 353 Walnut Street, the First Parish Church Rectory, 1856. The Reverend W. H. Lyon invited the Olmsted office in 1901 to advise on landscape plantings to screen a prospective neighbor. 382 Walnut Street, Pierce Hall; Olmsted job number 01178. Built in 1824 as the first town hall of Brookline after disestablishment, it was acquired in 1890 by the First Parish Church when a new town hall was constructed on the Washington Street near Brookline Village. The church used the building, renamed in honor of the Reverend John Pierce, as an education and meeting space. It was eventually connected to the adjacent church through a wing designed in 1901 by Charles Collens. The Olmsted firm oversaw the landscape development of the new wing and Pierce Hall. Work was completed in 1907. 393 Walnut Street, Bacon-Poor-Prouty house, 1852, architect unknown; Olmsted job number 05889. In 1893 Ben Prouty invited the Olmsted office to provide a design for the grounds of the house. The previous owner had been Nathaniel Poor, creator of the Standard & Poor’s Index. 400 Walnut Street, First Paris Church, designed 1893, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, architects; Olmsted office job number 00134. The Olmsted firm was invited to advise on landscape development beginning in 1891, after the site of the building had been determined. A contract was signed in 1893, with Moses Williams, an Olmsted client and neighbor, serving as the head of the building committee. In a memo to Williams, the office first volunteered to donate their services since two members of the firm belonged to the parish. Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. donated most of the plant material. They also provided designs for the landscape treatment in relation to the construction of a new wing in 1906. Lewis I. Prouty, on whose property the Olmsted firm also worked, volunteered to pay for modification in the landscape in 1936–37, which the firm oversaw. Warren and Boylston Street, the Brookline Town Reservoir, 1851; Olmsted job number 00105. As part of the Cochituate Reservoir project of the City of Boston, this reservoir was developed as a holding tank for water pumped from a larger reservoir farther to the west. When the reservoir was no longer needed by the City of Boston, John Charles Olmsted was one of the neighborhood residents who donated money to purchase the property and donate it to the Town of Brookline, preventing its development, in 1905. 16 Warren Street, 1851–1852, architect unknown; Olmsted job number 01030. John Charles Olmsted lived here from 1899 to 1918, a short walk from his office at 99 Warren Street. It is not 258 V appendix I surprising that he took an active role in the campaign to secure the Brookline Reservoir from development in 1905, given how close his residence was to the future park site. 30 Warren Street, 1885, the Moses Williams house, Peabody & Stearns architects; Olmsted job numbers 00464 (1875– 1886) and 01023 (1888). Williams, an attorney and state representative, was a frequent client of the Olmsted office. In addition to seeking the advice of the firm on the development of the grounds for his new house in 1885, he also asked them to project how the property could be subdivided if he chose to develop the land more intensely. In 1905, he paid for improvements to the First Parish Church property when he was the head of the property committee. He was frequently involved with possible real estate development projects in Brookline and often advocated for the plans of friends and neighbors before the Brookline Town Council. 423 Walnut Street, 1896, Joseph Chandler, architect. John Charles Olmsted had corresponded in 1895 with the owner of this property, a Mr. Scudder, about the potential development of the site. See figure 122 for the sketch plan he developed that was never realized. 77 Warren Street, Frederick Clarke Hood House, Chapman & Frazer, architects, Olmsted job number 02276, 1901–1902. F. C. Hood moved to 77 Warren Street in 1900. He was then serving as the treasurer of the Hood Rubber Company, which he had founded with his brother in 1896. In 1901–2 he invited the Olmsted firm to make alterations and extensions to the original landscape scheme by Ernest Bowditch. 99 Warren Street; Frederick Law Olmsted Home and Studio, Olmsted job number 00673. Fairsted is the hinge between the Town Green National Register Historic District and the Green Hill National Register Historic District to the south and...

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