132 Carlton St
This house, designed by Kilham & Hopkins in 1908, was built in a French Renaissance style for Bernard Jenney, Jr., treasurer, and later president of Jenney (oil) Manufacturing Company. He was also a wholesale druggist, founding the West & Jenney Company and becoming the treasurer of the Eastern Drug Company. When it was published in The American Architect in 1910, the house was described as, “A Study in French design of the Louis XVI period. Cement walls, dark blue slate roof and Italian green blinds; white trimmings.” The house is indeed unusual for the Cottage Farm neighborhood, where the prevailing style from the many houses built in the first quarter of the twentieth century is Colonial Revival. In addition to the house, the architects designed the first garage, at the same time, an early example that was featured in their major publication on the subject, Garages, Country and Suburban (1911). It was enlarged in the rear in 1985. Kilham & Hopkins were a major firm in metropolitan Boston. Kilham was a resident of Brookline and served on the Planning Board when it was established. Jenney resided here until his death in 1939. According to the 1935 Brookline street list, the occupants included his daughter’s family Mary & Francis Brewer, three maids and a laundress. The house was acquired by Boston University in 1963 and served as the home of former president John Silber.[1]
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