Stone Mansion, 62 Buckminister Road Very close to the Brookline - TopicsExpress



          

Stone Mansion, 62 Buckminister Road Very close to the Brookline reservoir this house on Buckminister Road always intrigued me. It was not until the late 1880s that the development of Brookline house lots really got under way. With Buckminster Road already completed most of the new houses were built on that road. Between 1888-1892 there were eleven houses built on Buckminster, including a large stone mansion at 62 Buckminster for Jonathan White, the brother of Joseph White, designed by Peabody & Stearns. Clarence Blackall, writing in an architectural journal in 1889, commented on the Jonathan White House that it was ... pleasing not only for its well-studied details and good general effect, but also for the manner in which Mr. Olmsteds landscape work and the architects design are so united that the house seems to be just as thoroughly in place, and a part of the surroundings, as though it had grown there.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 17:18:09 +0000

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