![]() (Ellen would die of tuberculosis in February at the age of 19.) In September, after only four months in Brookline, they moved into Boston. Emerson, however, found it inconvenient “traveling four miles out & home daily” to and from his position at the church. It was hoped that the new home would help Ellen recover from tuberculosis, with Emerson’s mother there to keep house. Perry’s - (in old Aspinwall House where Uncle Ralph lived one summer long ago) where we have a parlor & 3 chambers one for mother one for wife & one for you when you will come & welcome. “I expect mother in town Thursday or Friday & she will go to Brookline & take possession of our lodgings at Mrs. ![]() Paul’s Church, is today.)Įmerson described the lodgings in a letter to his brother William: (The house stood where the Billy Ward Playground, on Aspinwall Avenue opposite St. In May 1830, Emerson, then a young pastor at the Second Church in Boston, moved with his wife Ellen and his mother Ruth to the old Aspinwall House. But did you know that this leading figure in the Transcendentalist movement lived in Brookline for a brief time early in his career? Ralph Waldo Emerson is most famously associated with Concord and Boston. ![]() William Farquharson died in 1955 at the age of 80. The Farquharson company continued to own the building, leasing space to St. Clair's advertised its candies as an ideal gift at Christmas, as seen in the 1933 ad below.Īdvertisement, Boston Globe, December 21, 1933 Clair's, which had had a store on Temple Place in Boston since the late 19th century, remained at 1366 Beacon Street until the late 1950s. Farquharson Candy continued to operate at its other locations for a few more years. Clair's chain of candy stores/soda fountains. The Brookline store was sold in 1929 to the St. The ceiling is beamed and prism-effect mirrors are built into the walls behind the fountain. Leaded glass sliding windows protect the window displays, and most pleasing and restful prism chandeliers furnish the lighting effect. A most unusual and attractive tile floor has been laid, and the soda fountain has been doubled in size, providing plenty of room for the employees to carefully handle the wants of the customers. The inside finish, including that of the booths, which are a new feature in this concern's stores, is of gumwood, and the walls are of cream-colored plaster of Georgian design. The Brookline Chronicle described the new interior after its reopening in July 1924: Candy manufacturing was moved to Brighton although ice cream continued to be made on site. The chocolates and other softer molds of candy were a melted mass, the firmer brands of candy alone withstanding the tremendous heat.įarquharson's rebuilt after the fire, expanding the second floor of the building and adding about 50% more floor space to the store. The artistic displays, the gay colored candy boxes and glass jars, trays of candy, little jazz dolls and other bright decorations stood out in bold relief as the flames whipped about them.Īfter the fire, the store presented an entirely different picture. It appeared as though the lighting system had been suddenly turned on. The breaking through of the flames in the candy store presented a remarkable effect. The contents of the store as they burned made for a spectacular scene, as described the next day in the Boston Globe. Ammonia fumes from a cooling system inside Farquharson's added to the difficulties firefighters faced in extinguishing the fire. ![]() A January 1924 fire that started in the basement destroyed the candy factory and the store and damaged three other stores in the building.
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