Workers

21 Brookside Avenue

This house was built by Rudolf Haffenreffer, the owner of the brewery we just walked through about 1890. He wanted to be right on top of what was going on at his company. Steam pipes connected the house to the brewery – so he only paid one heating bill! This is a rather modest house for a brewery owner. Later, he moved up to a very large mansion on Moss Hill. And after that was destroyed by a fire he ended up back in this neighborhood in a modest house on Atherton Street as a retiree.

Stony Brook
  1. Introduction
  2. The Stony Brook
  3. Southwest Expressway/Southwest Corridor Park
  4. Boylston Hall/Jamaica Plain Neighborhood House
  5. Path of the Stony Brook
  6. Mansard Houses of Jess Street
  7. Haffenreffer Brewery
  8. 21 Brookside Avenue
  9. Our Lady of Lourdes Complex
  10. The Seven Sisters/Former Cable Rubber Factory
  11. Corner of Brookside and Cornwall
  12. 128 Brookside/Thanisch Carriage Factory
  13. Sturtevant Factory
  14. Conclusion