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16 unusual facts about Brookline


Anne Nason

Anne Nason was a championship golf player for The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Archbishop Demetrios of America

From 1983 to 1993, he served as the Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Benson Leavitt

On October 1, 1845, Mayor Thomas Aspinwall Davis wrote Board of Aldermen chairman Benson Leavitt from his home in Brookline.

Elyse Fenton

Elyse Fenton (born September 4, 1980 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American poet.

Frederic C. Lawrence

He was later appointed rector of St. Paul's Church in nearby Brookline.

George Davis Snell

Snell was educated in the Brookline, Massachusetts schools and then enrolled at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire where he continued his passion for mathematics and science, focusing on genetics.

Gregory Mangin

In 1931 Mangin, partnering with compatriot Berkeley Bell, were runners-up in the doubles final of the U.S. National Championships, played in Brookline, MA, losing in straight sets to compatriots John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison.

Lambert Murphy

Having filled positions in several important churches in Boston, Brookline, and Fairhaven, he went to New York in 1910 as soloist of St. Bartholomew's.

Mayer Alter Horowitz

From 1969-1989 he was the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beth Pinchas in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Michael Castleman

Michael Castleman was born on February 2, 1950 in Brookline, Massachusetts to parents of Ukrainian descent.

Michael Kirk

Mr. Kirk also owns a production company, the Kirk Documentary Group, in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Neumeister Chorales

Payne made the world-premiere recording of Bach's chorales contained in this collection at St. Paul's Church in Brookline, Massachusetts, working from a photostat of the Yale Manuscript.

Roy Smalley, Jr.

During the 1950 season, Smalley married Jolene Mauch, sister of former teammate Gene Mauch, in Brookline, Massachusetts while the team was in Boston playing the Boston Braves on August 5.

Taiye Selasi

Selasi was born in London, England, and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, the elder of twin daughters in a family of physicians.

Watson Washburn

In July 1915 Washburn and Williams won the doubles title at the Eastern Tennis Championship in Brookline defeating Irving C. Wright and Wallace F. Johnson in four sets.

Zack Grumet

At age eighteen, he moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, and apprenticed at Kupel’s Bake and Bagel, where he was trained in kosher-style baking by his mentor and master baker Ralf Schwartz.


153289 Rebeccawatson

153289 Rebeccawatson is named after Rebecca Watson (b. 1980) of Brookline, Massachusetts, a skeptic activist at the website Skepchick.

A. Arthur Giddon

After classes at Brookline’s Edward Devotion Grammar School, he would walk 10 minutes up to Braves Field, the home of the Boston Braves, for whom he served as bat boy during the 1922 season.

Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America

In 1991, the (then) Protopresbyter Ilia Katre, who had served for many years as Dean of Students at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA, took up residence in Albania, organized and opened the Resurrection of Christ Seminary with the blessing of the newly arrived Patriarchal Exarch, Anastasios.

Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt

Theodore, aged 22, married Alice, aged 19, on October 27, 1880 (his 22nd birthday), at the Unitarian Church in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Allston–Brighton

They are connected to the Fenway/Kenmore area of Boston by a tiny strip of land containing Boston University along the Charles River, with Brookline lying to the south and southeast, Cambridge to the north and Newton to the west, so they retain a very distinct neighbourhood identity together.

Archbishop Iakovos of America

Ordained a priest in 1940 in Lowell, Massachusetts, he served at St. George Church, Hartford, Connecticut, while teaching and serving as assistant dean of the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Theological School, then in Pomfret, Connecticut and now in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Boston University Housing System

These hotels include the Hyatt Regency Cambridge on the opposite bank of the Charles, and the Holiday Inn Brookline, both a manageable walk to main campus with free shuttle bus service provided to students in the Hyatt.

Boston–Brookline annexation debate of 1873

Born into a wealthy, traditional Brookline family, Aspinwall studied law at Harvard.

As Kenneth T. Jackson points out in his book Crabgrass Frontier, "the first really significant defeat for the consolidation movement came when Brookline spurned Boston." This was, according to Jackson, the starting point for a massive suburbanization campaign that swept the United States and greatly influenced the American way of life.

Breukelen Houses

Breukelen Houses (pronounced brook-line), also known as Breukelen or Brookline Projects, is a large housing complex maintained in Canarsie, Brooklyn, by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).

Charles Donagh Maginnis

In the Boston area, Maginnis also built the church of St. Catherine of Genoa in Somerville, Massachusetts, St. John The Evangelist in Cambridge and St. Aidan's Church in Brookline, Massachusetts where he was a parishioner along with the Kennedy family and other prominent Irish-Americans.

Chris Hersch

From 2004 to 2012, Chris Hersch taught guitar, banjo, and general music at many schools in the Boston area: Powers Music School (Belmont, Massachusetts), Cape Cod Conservatory (Falmouth MA), Community Music Center of Boston (Boston), Brookline Music School (Brookline, Mass), and BU High School (Boston).

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (15 August 1787 Boston - 26 January 1860 Brookline, Massachusetts) was an author and abolitionist.

FRLA

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, a United States National Historic Site located in Brookline, Massachusetts

George B. Cox

The George B. Cox House at the corner of Brookline and Jefferson avenues was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 6, 1973.

George W. Minns

George Washington Minns (October 6, 1813 in Boston, Massachusetts - January 14, 1895 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American teacher, notable for running the Minns Evening Normal School, which was established in San Francisco, California, in 1857 in order to train teachers for the city's public school system.

Haavara Agreement

Edwin Black: "The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine", Brookline Books, 1999.

Harry Downes

The football field at Brookline High was named in honor of him, however in 2006 the name was changed to the Kraft Family Athletic Facility at Harry Downes Field after New England Patriots owner and BHS alumnus Robert Kraft donated $400,000 toward the renovation of the field and encouraged the National Football League to donate an additional $200,000 to the project.

Kelly Link

She has taught or visited at a number of schools and workshops including Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey; the Imagination Workshop at Cleveland State University; New England Institute of Art & Communications, Brookline, Massachusetts; Clarion East at Michigan State University; Clarion West in Seattle, Washington; and Smith College, near her home in Northampton.

Late March 2013 North American winter storm

Snow totals as of the morning of March 19 are: 4" in Manchester, Connecticut; 4.5" in Ludlow, Massachusetts; 5.2" in South Weymouth, Massachusetts; 5.3" in Fitchburg, Massachusetts; and 8.0" in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Mayer Alter Horowitz

His eldest brother, Rabbi Pinchos Dovid Horowitz, is the Bostoner-Chuster Rav of Borough Park, Brooklyn, and his younger brother Grand Rabbi Naftali Yehuda Horowitz is the Bostoner Rebbe of Brookline, Boston.

Nosson Zand

Growing up in Brookline, he went to Brookline High School, where he took trumpet lessons and was exposed to rap by a friend of from the projects.

Olmsted Park System

Olmsted Park, Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts, also known as Olmsted Park System (and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under that name)

Robert Davis House

Robert S. Davis House, Brookline, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Sean Bielat

Bielat is a member of the St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Brookline and of the Catholic fraternal service organization, the Knights of Columbus.

Stotham

The "Cadwallader Simpkins House" is actually the Thomas Aspinwall Davis House in Brookline, Massachusetts(Actually this house is not the Aspinwall Davis House).

Thomas Davis House

Thomas Aspinwall Davis House, Brookline, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Walnut Hills

Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline, Massachusetts (listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts)

X. Henry Goodnough

Xanthus Henry Goodnough was born October 23, 1860, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Xanthus Goodnough, a farmer and native of Newton, and his wife, Kate (Hurley) Goodnough, a native of New Brunswick, Canada.

Zabdiel Boylston

Zabdiel Boylston, FRS (1679 in Brookline, Massachusetts – March 2, 1766) was a physician in the Boston area.