Father Pitt

Brookline is a museum of early-twentieth-century middle-class housing. You can stop almost anywhere in the neighborhood and find an eclectic mixture of houses in interesting styles—many of them altered over the years, but usually a few in nearly original condition. Here are five quite different houses from half a block of Berkshire Avenue, beginning with a solid-looking brick bungalow.

This stone Tudor is the most recent house in our collection; it probably dates from the late 1930s.

A typical Pittsburgh Foursquare in form, but with the somewhat unusual variation of a shingled second floor.

A Craftsman cottage that would have looked even more Craftsman with its original three-over-one windows.

A more unusual form of Craftsman cottage whose carved wooden brackets are well preserved. If the porch rail is not original, it is a well-chosen replacement that fits with the spirit of the house. Painting the aluminum awnings to match the trim makes them almost attractive.

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