Artist's Conception - May 1947
The NEW Brookline Memorial Community Center

The new Brookline Community Center
 as envisioned in May 1947

Brookline's Memorial Park will have facilities for outings and many kinds of sports. Here is an architects sketch of the proposed facilities. The are: 1 - Community Building; 2- Stadium; 3 - Swimming Pool; 4 - Ball Field; 5 - Amphitheatre; 6 - Tennis Courts; 7 - Children's Playground; 8 - Badminton Courts; 9 - Croquet Courts; 10 - Parking Area; 11 - Motor Gate; 12 - Ski Tower; 13 - Toboggan Slide; 14 - Picnic Groves; 15 - Boy Scout House.

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* Reprinted from the Pittsburgh Press, May 4, 1947 *

This really is an interesting look at the community center. It's hard to imagine, but this is what the park was supposed to look like. The plans gone through so many changes over the last half century, but in the end Brookline got what it wanted, a first class park in East Brookline.

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