Market St at Brighton Center c1950. Notice the O'Connell building to the the right of center described below
- The
Brighton Theater, also known as “The Barn,” was located at
400 Market Street on the site of the present municipal parking lot
behind the Washington Building in Brighton Center. This was
Brighton Center’s first motion picture theater, established
sometime between 1910 and 1915 for silent movies. The theater was also
sometimes referred to as “Billy Wood’s,” after its
owner/manager. The Brighton Theater closed shortly after the
construction in 1929 of the much larger and and far more elaborate
Egyptian Theater, which was equipped for sound movies
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- Later view of the 400 Market St block of stores
 - O'Connell
building, a three story tenement building, c1895, with ground level
storefronts at 399 Market St at the corner of Surrey St. This is
the current site of Brooks Pharmacy. The O'Connell building was
built on land that formed part of the eleven acre grounds (see the barn
to the left) of the Brighton Stockyards that stretched behind
Brighton's largest hotel, the famous Cattle Fair. 399 Market St
was built by James O'Connell, who established a plumbing business in
one of its storefronts. The other commercial tenant was James L
Muldoon, an undertaker.
 - Closeup of 399 Market St
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Market St opposite the Cemetery c1950
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View from Market St near Lincoln St. The large building to the left on Lincoln
Street served as
a car repair shop for the Boston & Albany Railroad. It
was demolished for the Mass Turnpike Extension. The building at
the center may have been associated with the discontinued
Stockyards.
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- The Market Street Bridge. On the right are the backs of houses along the southern side
of Lincoln Street that were demolished for the Mass Turnpike Extension
The B&A tracks looking east from the Market Street
Bridge. The Elm Farm Foods
building was located near the western end of the current Barry’s
Control building. Lincoln Street, which was partially removed for the Mass Turnpike construction, is to the left
c1950
close up view of the wooden commercial/ apartment building structure
built between 1885 and 1899 that stood adjacent and just north of the
Market Street Bridge, known
as the Denvir Block. Lincoln St is to the right in the
foreground. These buildings were built by local real estate
developer, Thomas Roddy, who also built the surviving Roddy Hall
building, dating from the 1890s, which is visible at the end of the row.
Captain Jonathan Winship House,
built in 1823, stood at 237-241 Market Street, at the corner of
Faneuil Street, on the grounds of Winship's Gardens.
Captain Winship was the pioneer horticulturalist in
Brighton and a founder of the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society. Demolished.
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