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About Brookline
Brookline is a jewel of a town with a blend of stimulating urban life and suburban amenities. Nestled up to Boston, it has managed to maintain its own identity. Its mixture of busy streets and rolling countryside, upscale shops and village pubs, gracious apartment buildings and large estates makes it unique. Home for legions of academic and scientific professionals, who work at nearby medical centers in Boston; young high tech business executives also reside there in equal numbers.
Brookline has staunchly refused to be absorbed by Boston, which surrounds it like a horseshoe. It is a community of 6.6 square miles and 57,000 people. Brookline has kept its town meeting form of government since 1705, when this “Muddy River” farmland of Boston became incorporated and named for the brooks that formed the boundaries.
Among its many unusual resources, Brookline has its own farm (with farm stand), a big screen art deco movie theatre, the oldest country club in the nation, a town golf course, the home in which John F. Kennedy was born, a magnificent park on a hillside overlooking Boston with a wonderful open air skating rink and marvelous transportation museum, and numerous neighborhood parks and playgrounds scattered throughout the Town. Brookline is also home to the National Historic Site of Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park and Boston’s Emerald Necklace.
Brookline’s Main Street style retail centers, like Coolidge Corner (approximately .25 miles from Saint Paul Arms) and Brookline Village, are bustling pedestrian-oriented shopping areas with a variety of independently owned shops. There is a wonderful mix of people in Brookline: young professionals, elderly, visiting foreign scholars, immigrants from many lands and young families. It is said that the student body at Brookline High School – a nationally renowned institution – includes students from more than 50 different countries. With its good schools, the Lawrence Elementary School is .26 miles from Saint Paul Arms, transportation (the MBTA Saint Paul Street stop is .06 miles from Saint Paul Arms) and government, Brookline is a choice spot in which to reside.