Strathmore Road Historic District

Strathmore Road is an L-shaped street just south of the western part of Beacon Street in Brookline. Together with adjoining Clinton Path, it holds six brick apartment buildings, mostly three and a half stories, built between 1904 and 1908. Most follow Federal and Classical Revival designs by architects Murdock Boyle and James Hutchinson, with limestone keystones, modillions, dentils and round-arched doorways. Two buildings, 40 Strathmore Road and 1 Clinton Path, show Romanesque Revival features such as rusticated brownstone. Several were designed to look like attached single-family houses. The land once belonged to the West End Land Company and was developed by George Johnston and Charles Newhall during a building boom that followed the streetcar extension along Beacon Street. Early tenants were middle-class professionals who worked in Boston. The streetscape has seen little change, with consistent scale, setback, front gardens and mature street trees. It was listed for its link to Brookline's growth as a streetcar suburb and for its cohesive architecture.