House and 
Garden 
Vol. V 
June, 1904 
No. 6 
“GREEN HILL” 
THE OLD GODDARD MANSION AT BROOKLINE, MASS. 
By J. A. Schweinfurth 
With illustrations by the Author 
From a %uater-color drazumg by the Author 
A SIDE OF THE OLD MANSION 
S ITUATED in Warren Street, in the 
most rural part of the town of Brook¬ 
line, is the old estate called “ Green Hill.” 
It is within sight of the house in which the 
late H. H. Richardson had his office and 
residence for so long, and in which he spent 
the last years of his file. The peculiar loca¬ 
tion of the house, the high wall and steep 
hill which meets one on approaching it, and 
the many years’ growth of trees and shrubs, 
which conceal it, render the mansion very 
inconspicuous to the casual passer-by. In 
fact the writer himself, had passed this house 
for many years, and had never noticed it, 
until by chance entering the estate one day, 
its full beauty became appreciated. One 
need not wonder, therefore, why, in these 
times when the country has been searched 
carefully over for fine old houses, that this 
one is comparatively unknown. Enter the 
estate through a gap in the wall near the 
stable, and there you have a long rambling 
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