Set back in the woods along Pioneer Avenue, this house obviously belongs to a different era. It looks like a typical Pennsylvania farmhouse, because—as far as we can tell from old maps—that is what it was: an I-house with a plantation-style colonnaded porch added in a moment of prosperity. The Knowlsons owned much of the land that became southwestern Brookline, and they gave the neighborhood its name. They certainly did prosper when they sold their land to developers, along with their relatives the Flemings.
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