Brookline, Massachusetts Brookline, Massachusetts Brookline MA August 2015 Photo Collage 2.jpg Official seal of Brookline, Massachusetts Brookline / br k la n/ is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in the United States, and is a part of Greater Boston.
Brookline borders six of Boston's neighborhoods: Brighton, Allston, Fenway Kenmore, Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain, and West Roxbury.
The town/city of Newton lies to the west of Brookline.
At the 2010 census, the populace of the town was 58,732.
Brookline was first settled in 1638 as a hamlet in Boston, but was incorporated as a separate town in 1705.
Brookline is especially notable as the place of birth and hometown of John F.
1858 map of north-central Norfolk County, showing Brookline (upper left) along with Dorchester, Roxbury and West Roxbury, all three of which were later took in by Boston Once part of Algonquian territory, Brookline was first settled by European colonists in the early 17th century.
In 1705, it was incorporated as the autonomous town of Brookline.
The Town of Brighton was consolidated with Boston in 1874, and the Boston-Brookline border was redrawn to connect the new Back Bay neighborhood with Allston-Brighton.
This created a narrow strip of territory along the Charles River belonging to Boston, cutting Brookline off from the shoreline.
When the Emerald Necklace of parks and parkways was designed for Boston by Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1890s, the Muddy River was integrated into the Riverway and Olmsted Park, creating parkland accessible by both Boston and Brookline residents.
Throughout its history, Brookline has resisted being took in by Boston, in particular amid the Boston Brookline annexation debate of 1873.
The neighboring suburbs of West Roxbury and Hyde Park connected Brookline to the rest of Norfolk County until they were took in by Boston in 1874 and 1912, in the order given, putting them in Suffolk County.
Brookline is now separated from the remainder of Norfolk County.
Brookline has long been regarded as a pleasant and verdant surrounding.
The whole of this neighborhood of Brookline is a kind of landscape garden, and there is nothing in America of the sort, so inexpressibly charming as the lanes which lead from one cottage, or villa, to another.
Brookline inhabitants were among the first in the nation to propose extending the vote to women.
Two chapters of upper Boston Post Road, established in the 1670s, passed through Brookline.
Brookline Village was the initial center of retail activity. In 1810, the Boston and Worcester Turnpike, now Massachusetts Route 9, was laid out, starting on Huntington Avenue in Boston and passing through the village center on its way west.
Steam barns s came to Brookline in the middle of the 19th century.
The Boston and Worcester Railroad was constructed in the early 1830s, and passed through Brookline near the Charles River.
The Highland Branch of the Boston and Albany Railroad was assembled from Kenmore Square to Brookline Village in 1847, and was extended into Newton in 1852.
Streetcar tracks were laid above ground on Beacon Street in 1888, from Coolidge Corner to Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, via Kenmore Square. In 1889, they were electrified and extended over the Brighton border at Cleveland Circle.
Thanks to the Boston Elevated Railway system, this upgrade from horse-drawn carriage to electric street cars occurred on many primary streets all over the region, and made transit into downtown Boston faster and cheaper.
Much of Brookline was advanced into a streetcar suburb, with large brick apartment buildings sprouting up along the new streetcar lines.
Brookline was known as the hamlet of Muddy River and was considered part of Boston until the Town of Brookline was autonomously incorporated in 1705.
(The Muddy River was used as the Brookline Boston border at incorporation.) It is said that the name derives from a farm therein once owned by Judge Samuel Sewall. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Brookline has a total region of 6.8 sq mi (17.7 km2), all but 0.039 sq mi (0.1 km2) (0.44%) of which is land.
The northern part of Brookline, roughly north of the D-line tracks, is urban in character, as highly walkable and transit rich.
The populace density of this part of town is nearly 20,000 inhabitants per square mile (8,000/km2), on a par with the most populated neighborhoods in close-by Cambridge, Somerville and Chelsea, Massachusetts (the most populated metros/cities in New England), and just below that of central Boston's residentiary districts (Back Bay, South End, Fenway, etc.).
The overall density of Brookline, which also includes suburban districts and grand estates south of the D-line, is still higher than that of many of the biggest cities in the United States, especially in the South and West.
Brookline borders Newton (part of Middlesex County) to the west and Boston (part of Suffolk County) in all other directions; it is therefore non-contiguous with any other part of Norfolk County.
Brookline became an exclave in 1873, when the neighboring town of West Roxbury was took in by Boston (and left Norfolk County to join Suffolk County), and Brookline refused to be took in by Boston after the Boston Brookline annexation debate of 1873.
Brookline separates the bulk of the town/city of Boston (except for a narrow neck or corridor near the Charles River) from its westernmost neighborhoods of Allston Brighton, which had been the separate town of Brighton until took in by Boston in 1873.
The neighborhoods, squares, & notable areas of Brookline include: Brookline Hills Brookline Village Brookline High School, Near Pierce District North Brookline Putterham Circle (South Brookline) South Brookline ("Sobro") Climate data for Brookline, MA Brookline falls under the USDA 6b Plant Hardiness zone. Serving as a residentiary zone for close-by academic and medical institutes such as Harvard Medical School and Boston University, the town of Brookline was reported as the town/city with the most doctoral degree holders (14.0% of total population) in the United States. Brookline, along with the close-by Boston neighborhood of Brighton and the town/city of Newton, is a cultural core for the Jewish improve of Greater Boston. Overlooking Leverett Pond in Olmsted Park from the Brookline side Coolidge Corner, which is positioned at the crossing of Beacon Street and Harvard Street, is one of Brookline's two major retail districts (the other being Washington Square).
There were two stops on the Underground Railroad in Brookline: 9 Toxteth Street and 182 Walnut Street. Brookline is home to part of Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace of park systems, including Olmsted Park.
Larz Anderson Park is in Brookline on the 64-acre (26 ha) estate once owned by Larz Anderson and Isabel Weld Perkins.
Kennedy stands in Brookline and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Puppet Showplace Theatre, one of the four earliest puppet theatres in the United States, is positioned in Brookline Village.
The Dutch House, one of only five surviving buildings from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was relocated to Brookline.
Brookline is governed by a representative (elected) town meeting, which is the legislative body of the town, and a five-person Board of Selectmen that serves as the executive branch of the town.
For more details about the part s and procedures inside the government of Brookline, please see the town government's own description at Brooklinema.gov. The town is served by the Public Schools of Brookline. The student body at Brookline High School includes students from more than 50 countries.
Many students attend Brookline High from encircling neighborhoods in Boston such as Mission Hill and Mattapan through the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) system.
There are eight elementary schools in the Brookline Public School system: Baker School, Devotion, Driscoll, Heath, Lawrence, Lincoln, Pierce, and Runkle.
As of December 2006, there were 6,089 K-12 students enrolled in the Brookline enhance schools.
The Old Lincoln School is a surplus building used by the town to temporarily teach students in when another school building is being renovated.
Several private major and secondary schools are positioned in Brookline.
Several institutes of college studies are positioned in Brookline, including: Brookline Village MBTA D-Train stop Brookline is served by the C and D chapters of the MBTA's Green Line trains, with inbound service to downtown Boston and outbound service to Newton.
Brookline is served by a several MBTA bus routes.
Public Library of Brookline, 361 Washington St., Brookline, MA 02445 Coolidge Corner Branch Library, 31 Pleasant St., Brookline, MA 02446 The town of Brookline is protected full-time by the 158 paid, experienced firefighters of the Brookline Fire Department (BFD).
The Brookline Fire Department responds to approximately 6,500 emergency calls annually.
Kennedy (left) and tv host Conan O'Brien are two of the best known citizens from Brookline.
Bhumibol Adulyadej, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej (King Rama IX) of Thailand lived his infancy in Brookline while his father the prince studied at Harvard Medical School Eddie Andelman, sports radio host and businessman, moved to Brookline as child, graduated from Brookline High Ambassador to Canada, born and raised in Brookline Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, lived the last 12 years of his life in Brookline Larry Bird, experienced basketball player, lived in Brookline while he played for the Boston Celtics Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City 2002-12, lived in Brookline as a child Theo Epstein (born 1973), Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations and former Boston Red Sox general manager Richard Jones, US ambassador to Israel, lived in Brookline with his family Kennedy (1917 1963), President of the United States, born in Brookline, where he lived his first 10 years; baptized at and attended St.
Aidan's Church; attended Edward Devotion School, a Brookline enhance school, from kindergarten until the beginning of 3rd grade, then Noble and Greenough Lower School and its successor Dexter School, a Brookline private school for boys through 4th grade; moved with family to The Bronx, New York City, New York in September 1927 Kennedy, born in Brookline Kennedy, born in Brookline Kennedy, born in Brookline Kennedy, born in Brookline Open held in Brookline Ananda Mahidol, His Majesty King Ananda Mahidol (King Rama VIII) of Thailand, lived amid age 1 3 years in Brookline while his father the prince studied at Harvard Medical School Joey Mc - Intyre, youngest member of musical group New Kids on the Block, lived in Brookline James Taylor, musician, owns a home in Brookline Mikey Welsh, former bassist for modern band Weezer, moved to Brookline in his youth The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) takes place at The Country Club of Brookline, although the golf scenes were filmed in Canada.
The Brookline Trunk by Louise Andrews Kent is a historical novel set in and around Brookline.
It traces the history of Brookline from 1650 to 1955.
Beacon Street in Brookline is the setting of the Beacon Street Girls, a series of children's books for pre-teen girls.
Jonathan Coulton's song "Brookline" refers to the town.
Brookline is twinned with: National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts "Population and Housing Occupancy Status: 2010 State County Subdivision, 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File".
John Gould Curtis, History of the Town of Brookline Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1933, pg.305 Brookline Village Archived October 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
Brookline, Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury Directory for 1871; Containing a General Directory of the Residents, Town Registers, Business Directory, Map, &c., &c.
The name of Brookline came, as the late Rev.
Samuel Sewall (great grandson of Judge Samuel Sewall) conjectures, from one of the farms inside its bounds, namely the Gates' farm, hired of Judge Sewall, which was probably called Brookline because Smelt-brook, running through it, formed the line between that and one of the neighboring farms, and this brook also separated that farm from Cambridge.
Judge Sewall, in his journal, often mentions the name "Brookline" before the town was incorporated.
"Map - Brookline Neighboorhood Alliance" (PDF).
"Brookline Town website: Neighborhood Associations".
"Brookline, MA Weather Data".
"TOTAL POPULATION (P1), 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1".
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1950 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1920 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1890 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
"1870 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
"1950 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"162 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, MA 02445 " "Public Library of Brookline website".
Brookline Sister City Project.
Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts (University of Massachusetts Press; 2012) 384 pages; Discusses Brookline as a laboratory for Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
Oral history with chapters on more than 60 notable Brookline residents.
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