Coolidge Corner

The Olmsted Firm documented Coolidge Corner about 1915 for a design project for the town.

Olmsted Photograph Album Collection (Job 1310), Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Quick Facts

Location:

Corner of Beacon Street & Harvard Street, Brookline, MA

Amenities

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Public Transit

Coolidge Corner was a retail hub of Brookline at the turn of the century, and a frequent destination of the Kennedy family. With "one child in his kiddycar and... one or two others on each side," Rose Kennedy woud sally forth to shop at the Five and Dime, the bank, or the 1898 S.S. Pierce Building. Here, the Beacon Street rail and electric trolley lines helped connect this typical streetcar suburb to downtown Boston, where much of the Kennedys' social, cultural, and political life was centered.