Category Archives: Off the peninsula

Glimpses. 30 Glenwood Avenue

Built ca 1899

As we have seen in previous posts, the introduction of trolley and omnibus service in the 1880s & ’90s opened large tracts of former farmlands westward off the peninsula to development. Our subject is part of this trend and puts us back in touch with Mr. Llewellyn Morse Leighton.

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31 Belmeade Street.

 


Built in 1923 by Frank and Grace Leavitt

Design by John Calvin and John Howard Stevens

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318 Brighton Avenue.

Built in 1902 by Horace Frank Farnham. Designed by John Calvin Stevens.

A large Queen Anne in the Highlands neighborhood

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