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Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., and John Charles Olmsted prepared plans for The Goddard Land Company between 1884-1889. Situated upon the then sparsely developed Fisher Hill, originally owned by George A. Goddard, Olmsted was hired to design a suburban subdivision. Adjacent to Aspinwall Hill (00622), the collective area known as Brookline Hill was intended to serve as a residential quarter.

Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., and John Charles Olmsted prepared plans for The Goddard Land Company between 1884-1889. Situated upon the then sparsely developed Fisher Hill, originally owned by George A. Goddard, Olmsted was hired to design a suburban subdivision. Adjacent to Aspinwall Hill (00622), the collective area known as Brookline Hill was intended to serve as a residential quarter. To entice homeowners regulations were put into place “to give assurance to purchasers that land in the neighborhood of that they are asked to buy shall be used only for dwellings, and that the front of no dwelling shall come within twenty or thirty feet of a street, are made by the Brookline, the Aspinwall, the West End and the Goddard Land Companies.” [Frederick Law Olmsted Talk to the Brookline Club ‘History of Streets’ _02-25-1889_FLOP-SF-R#60-Miscellany-im.14].

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