H.O. Electric is an electrical contractor business in the greater Boston Area who services all towns in Eastern MA and Southern Maine, including the cities and towns of Arlington, Belmont, Brookline, Boston, Cambridge, Lexington, Lincoln, Newton, Needham, Sudbury, Watertown, Wellesley, Weston, Winchester

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• H.O. Electric, Belmont MA • (617) 489-6324 • Howard Oven, Master Electrician

When you call H.O. Electric, you are directed to trained friendly electricians, who will arrange to come to your home or commercial facility to handle all of your electrical needs, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

If you need any level of residential electrical work or commercial electrical work, from service change to lamp change, from emergency work to planned remoeling, H.O. Electric is the top service contractor to assist you. With a friendly and knowledgeable staff, HO Electric, a company in Eastern Massachusettes, based in Belmont, will work with your general contractor, manager or owner, as appropriate, to coordinate all phases of the job.

H.O. Electric – Electricians working in Residential and Commercial - licensed Electrical Contractors.

H.O. Electric provides full electrical and telecommunications services in both residential and commercial applications.

H.O. Electric is a full service electrical contractor. We provide installation and service for all electrical and telecommunications applications. H.O. Electric’s fully trained staff is glad to provide fast and friendly service for any residential or commercial application in the Greater Boston area.

Some specific areas where HO Electric can serve your electrical & electrical contractor needs: home improvement, remodeling, telephone, telecommunications, fuse panel, wiring, lights, home inspections, lighting, structured wiring, sound systems, cable TV, security, surge protection.

About Brookline, MA

Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. It borders Newton (part of Middlesex County) on the southwest and Boston (part of Suffolk County) in all other directions, so it is not actually contiguous with any other part of Norfolk County. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 57,107.

First settled in the early 1600s as a part of Boston, Massachusetts known as the hamlet of Muddy River, Brookline was incorporated as an independent town in 1705.
President John F. Kennedy was born here, as was his brother Attorney General and Senator Bobby Kennedy. It was also the home of influential American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, 60 Minutes icon Mike Wallace, former Governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, television talk show host Conan O'Brien, television commentator and journalist Barbara Walters, former Boston Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein, and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Wallace, Dukakis, Epstein, O'Brien and Kraft all attended Brookline High School.
The Country Club, an exclusive sporting club in the town, claims to be the first private club in the United States formed exclusively for outdoor activities. It is most famous as a golf club; it was one of the five clubs that formed what is now the United States Golf Association, and has hosted the U.S. Open three times and the Ryder Cup Matches once.
Brookline is also home to the Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.

As close to Boston as Brookline is, it has managed to maintain its own identity. Brookline features a unique mixture of urban and suburban living, upscale shops and recreational parks, apartment buildings and large estates. It is the home of many academic and scientific professionals who work at the nearby medical centers in Boston. Brookline has staunchly refused to be absorbed by Boston, which surrounds it like a horseshoe. Brookline has kept its town meeting form of government since its 1705 incorporation. It has also kept an unusual overnight on-street parking ban that continues to baffle and irritate many residents. The name "Brookline" is derived from the brooks that form its boundaries. Among its many unusual resources, Brookline has its own working farm (with farm stand), the oldest country club in the nation, a town golf course, the home in which John F. Kennedy was born, a park on a hillside overlooking Boston with an open air skating rink and transportation museum, as well as numerous neighborhood parks and playgrounds scattered throughout the town. Its major retail centers, like Coolidge Corner and Brookline Village, are pedestrian-oriented shopping areas with a variety of shops. Along with offering both a city atmosphere and a feeling of being in the country, there is a wide mix of people in Brookline. It is said that the student body at Brookline High School includes students from more than 50 different countries. Although predominantly residential, Brookline is open to new commercial development, and has amended its zoning to encourage new growth along its major thoroughfares.
Brookline is known in the Boston area for its large population of Russian immigrants and numerous synagogues. Jewish culture is very strong in Brookline, and is especially notable along the section of Harvard Street that runs between Beacon Street (Coolidge Corner) and Commonwealth Avenue. This neighborhood is home to at least 3 area synagogues and a number of Jewish-themed restaurants and stores.
Brookline is also known for its excellent schools, which are supported in large part by property taxes — the town has one of the highest property tax burdens in the country.
While residents of Brookline tend toward liberal ideals, economic and cultural factors keep this section of the Boston metropolitan area less diverse than its neighbor across the Charles River, Cambridge.
"Fairsted", the 100 year old business headquarters and design office for renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and the Olmsted Brothers firm, has been carefully preserved as the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, located on 7 acres (28,000 m²) of landscaped grounds at 99 Warren Street.

HISTORY OF BROOKLINE

Brookline's beginnings were rural; its land was originally parceled out to citizens of Boston as allotment farmlands in the 1630s. As allotment holders found it convenient to live close to their crops and livestock, a settlement grew up around the "Muddy River Hamlet". By the end of the seventeenth century, its inhabitants had built a school house, laid out major roads, obtained exemption from paying taxes to Boston, and were petitioning the Massachusetts Court for independence.

After attempts, a petition to be a separate town, signed by 32 freeholders, was granted on November 13, 1705. The Muddy River hamlet was formally incorporated as the Town of Brookline. Samuel Sewall, son of Judge Sewall of Salem Witch Trials fame, lent the community his services as the first Town Clerk and, it is thought, the name of his family's "Brooklin" lands, which lay between the Charles and Muddy Rivers. A Town Meeting and Selectmen governed the Town, then, and still do today.

The residents of Brookline in the early eighteenth century were almost all farmers, many cultivating lands inherited from fathers or acquired through marriage. Some of their names, such as Heath, Winchester, Clark, Aspinwall, and Devotion, remain today as street and neighborhood identifications. Zabdiel Boylston of Brookline, a physician, and uncle of John Adams, earned initial notoriety and enduring fame by introducing inoculation against smallpox to the American colonies in 1721.

By 1775, Brooklin was ready for greater independence from king and country across the water. William Dawes who rode along the Road to the Colleges (now Harvard Street) alerted Brookline that the British were marching on Concord. Three companies of Brookline volunteers mustered on the Town Green at the intersection of Walnut and Warren Streets and headed west, meeting the retreating British at North Cambridge and participating in their rout. One of their number, Isaac Gardner, was reportedly the only Harvard graduate among the patriots to die that day. The following spring, spurred on by John Goddard, a Brookline farmer and a fiery patriot who was to become Wagon-Master General for the Continental Army; the Brookline Town Meeting resolved that if "the Honorable Congress should, for the safety of the American Colonies, declare them independent of the Kingdom of Great Briton, then we. . . will solemnly engage with our Lives and fortune to support them."

Brookline's evolution from an agricultural to a suburban residential community began when wealthy merchants purchased large farms and built summer homes. Senator George Cabot and Samuel and Thomas Hanasyd Perkins were among the first, followed later in the nineteenth century by Theodore Lyman, John Lowell Gardner, Ignatius Sargent, Henry Lee, and Augustus Lowell. David Sears and Amos Lawrence were so taken with their Brookline estates that they gradually expanded them and laid them out as small communities where their friends, relations, and later buyers might join them in country living at Longwood or Cottage Farm.

As transportation routes were developed, making Brookline readily accessible to Boston, the population grew rapidly. In 1806, the Boston-Worcester Turnpike (now Route 9) replaced the old Sherburne Road (Walnut and Heath Street) as the Town's major highway and the main road west from Boston. Mill Dam Road was opened in 1821, extending Beacon Street into Brookline. This consummated Brookline's transition to the desirable commuter suburb that it is today.

The great nineteenth-century architect H.H. Richardson chose to live in Brookline as did his friend and colleague Frederick Law Olmsted. Considered to be the founder of landscape architecture in America, Olmsted served on the Town's Planning Board. Amy Lowell and John and Robert Kennedy were born here; physicians Walter Channing, George Minot, and William Murphy and Nobel laureate John Enders, horticulturist Charles Sprague Sargent, and musicians Serge Koussevitsky, Arthur Fiedler and Roland Hayes are some of the many notables who have been Town residents.

Main business address for: BROOKLINE BANCORP INC (SAVINGS INSTITUTION, FEDERALLY CHARTERED).

Hospitals/medical centers in Brookline:
BOURNEWOOD HOSPITAL (300 SOUTH STREET)
HUMAN RESOURCE INST OF BOSTON (227 BABCOCK STREET)
Other hospitals/medical centers near Brookline:
KINDRED HOSPITAL - BOSTON (about 2 miles; BOSTON, MA)
FRANCISCAN CHILDRENS HOSP & REHAB CTR (about 2 miles; BRIGHTON, MA)
ST ELIZABETHS MEDICAL CENTER OF BOSTON (about 2 miles; BRIGHTON, MA)

Political contributions by individuals in Brookline, MA

Airports certified for carrier operations nearest to Brookline:
GENERAL EDWARD LAWRENCE LOGAN INTL (about 10 miles; BOSTON, MA; ID: BOS)
LAURENCE G HANSCOM FLD (about 14 miles; BEDFORD, MA; ID: BED)
MANCHESTER (about 47 miles; MANCHESTER, NH; ID: MHT)
Other public-use airports nearest to Brookline:
NORWOOD MEMORIAL (about 11 miles; NORWOOD, MA; ID: OWD)
NORFOLK (about 22 miles; NORFOLK, MA; ID: 32M)
MANSFIELD MUNI (about 23 miles; MANSFIELD, MA; ID: 1B9)

Colleges/Universities in Brookline:
NEWBURY COLLEGE-BROOKLINE (Full-time enrollment: 1,258; Location: 129 FISHER AVE; Private, not-for-profit; Website: www.newbury.edu)
MASSACHUSETTS COMMUNICATIONS COLLEGE (FT enrollment: 553; Location: 10 Brookline Place West; Private, for-profit; Website: www.masscomm.edu)
HELLENIC COLLEGE-HOLY CROSS GRK ORTH SCH OF THEOL (FT enrollment: 118; Location: 50 GODDARD AVE; Private, not-for-profit; Website: hchc.edu; Offers Master's degree)
BOSTON GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS INC (FT enrollment: 49; Location: 1581 BEACON ST; Private, not-for-profit; Website: www.bgsp.edu; Offers Doctor's degree)
HEBREW COLLEGE (FT enrollment: 42; Location: 43 HAWES ST; Private, not-for-profit; Website: www.hebrewcollege.edu; Offers Master's degree)
ALFRED ADLER INSTITUTE OF BOSTON INC (Location: 1674 BEACON ST; Private, not-for-profit; Offers Master's degree)
LEE INSTITUTE (Location: 310 HARVARD ST; Private, for-profit)
Colleges/universities with over 2000 students nearest to Brookline:
BOSTON UNIVERSITY (about 3 miles; BOSTON, MA; Full-time enrollment: 25,110)
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC (about 3 miles; BOSTON, MA; FT enrollment: 3,122)
BOSTON COLLEGE (about 3 miles; CHESTNUT HILL, MA; FT enrollment: 13,341)
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY (about 3 miles; BOSTON, MA; FT enrollment: 19,294)
WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (about 3 miles; BOSTON, MA; FT enrollment: 2,732)
SIMMONS COLLEGE (about 3 miles; BOSTON, MA; FT enrollment: 2,386)
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (about 4 miles; CAMBRIDGE, MA; FT enrollment: 9,895)
Private high schools in Brookline:
MAIMONIDES SCHOOL (Students: 635; Location: 34 PHILBRICK RD; Grades: KG - 12)
NEHA/LUBAVITCH SCH FOR GIRLS (Students: 5; Location: 9 PRESCOTT ST/PO BOX 514; Grades: 7 - 12; Girls only)
Public primary/middle schools in Brookline:
BROOKLINE HIGH (Students: 1,925; Location: 115 GREENOUGH STREET; Grades: PK - 12)
EDWARD DEVOTION (Students: 694; Location: 345 HARVARD STREET; Grades: KG - 08)
PIERCE (Students: 545; Location: 50 SCHOOL STREET; Grades: KG - 08)
WILLIAM H LINCOLN (Students: 464; Location: 19 KENNARD RD; Grades: PK - 08)
JOHN D RUNKLE (Students: 462; Location: 50 DRUCE STREET; Grades: PK - 08)
LAWRENCE (Students: 434; Location: 194 BOYLSTON STREET; Grades: KG - 08)
MICHAEL DRISCOLL (Students: 407; Location: 64 WESTBOURNE TER; Grades: PK - 08)
THE LYNCH CENTER (Students: 66; Location: 599 BROOKLINE AVENUE; Grades: PK - PK)
Private primary/middle schools in Brookline:
THE PARK SCHOOL (Students: 508; Location: 171 GODDARD AVE; Grades: PK - 9)
DEXTER SCHOOL (Students: 368; Location: 20 NEWTON ST; Grades: PK - 8; Boys only)
SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL (Students: 285; Location: 10 NEWTON; Grades: PK - 8; Girls only)
TORAH ACADEMY (Students: 212; Location: 11 WILLISTON RD; Grades: PK - 8)
ST MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION ELEM (Students: 151; Location: 67 HARVARD ST; Grades: KG - 8)
BAY COVE ACADEMY (Students: 35; Location: 156 LAWTON ST; Grades: UG - UG)
IVY STREET SCHOOL (Students: 19; Location: 200 IVY; Grades: 5 - 11)
Library in Brookline:
BROOKLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY (Operating income: $2,774,438; Location: 361 WASHINGTON ST.; 326,891 books; 20,730 audio materials; 8,199 video materials; 635 serial subscriptions)

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Notable locations in Brookline: Longwood Tennis Courts (A), Metropolitan Water Works (B), Philbrick Square (C), Reservoir Station (D), School Street Parking Lot (E), Soule Recreation Center and Playground (F), The Country Club (G), Beaconsfield Station (H), Town of Brookline Recycling Center (I), Village Square (J), Washington Square (K), Webster Street Parking Area (L), Brookline Field (M), Brookline Golf Course (N), Brookline Hills Station (O), Brookline Outdoor Skating Facility (P), Centre Street Parking Area (Q), Clark Playground (R), Coolidge Corner (S), Cypress Playground (T). Display/hide their locations on the map

Shopping Center: Washington Square Shopping Center (1). Display/hide its location on the map

ChurcAugust 12, 2006h in Brookline Church (B), United Parish (C), Chinese Christian Church (D), Christ Church (E), Christian Science Benevolent Association (F), Church of Christ (G), Church of Christ in Brookline (H). Display/hide their locations on the map

Cemeteries: Walnut Hills Cemetery (1), Brookline Cemetery (2), Holyhood Cemetery (3). Display/hide their locations on the map

Lakes and reservoirs: Sargent Pond (A), Lost Pond (B), Halls Pond (C), Fisher Hill Reservoir (D), Crystal Lake (E), Single Tree Hill Reservoir (F), Brookline Reservoir (G). Display/hide their locations on the map

Parks in Brookline include: Linden Park (1), Soule Recreation Center and Playground (2), Margaret E Robinson Playground (3), Coolidge Park (4), Outlook Park (5), Schick Park (6), Mason Square (7), Amory Playground (8), Amory Woods (9). Display/hide their locations on the map

Post offices: Longwood Post Office (A), Brookline Village Post Office (B). Display/hide their locations on the map

Brookline compared to Massachusetts state average:

Median household income above state average.
Median house value significantly above state average.
Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
Foreign-born population percentage significantly above state average.
Renting percentage above state average.
Number of rooms per house below state average.
Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly above state average.
Population density above state average for cities.

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Strongest AM radio stations in Brookline:
WWZN (1510 AM; 50 kW; BOSTON, MA; Owner: ROSE CITY RADIO CORPORATION)
WEEI (850 AM; 50 kW; BOSTON, MA; Owner: ENTERCOM BOSTON LICENSE, LLC)
WUNR (1600 AM; 20 kW; BROOKLINE, MA; Owner: CHAMPION BROADCASTING SYSTEMS, INC.)
WRKO (680 AM; 50 kW; BOSTON, MA; Owner: ENTERCOM BOSTON LICENSE, LLC)
WRCA (1330 AM; 25 kW; WALTHAM, MA; Owner: WRCA LICENSE, LLC)
WEZE (590 AM; 5 kW; BOSTON, MA; Owner: NEW ENGLAND CONTINENTAL MEDIA, INC.)
WBZ (1030 AM; 50 kW; BOSTON, MA; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING OPERATIONS, INC.)
WNTN (1550 AM; 10 kW; NEWTON, MA; Owner: COLT COMMUNICATIONS, LLC)
WKOX (1200 AM; 50 kW; FRAMINGHAM, MA; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
WILD (1090 AM; daytime; 5 kW; BOSTON, MA; Owner: RADIO ONE OF BOSTON LICENSES, LLC)
WBIX (1060 AM; 40 kW; NATICK, MA; Owner: LANGER BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
WXKS (1430 AM; 5 kW; EVERETT, MA; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
WMKI (1260 AM; 5 kW; BOSTON, MA; Owner: ABC, INC.)

Strongest FM radio stations in Brookline:
WXKS-FM (107.9 FM; MEDFORD, MA; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
WMJX (106.7 FM; BOSTON, MA; Owner: GREATER BOSTON RADIO, INC.)
WBCN (104.1 FM; BOSTON, MA; Owner: HEMISPHERE BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
WZLX (100.7 FM; BOSTON, MA; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION OF BOSTON)
WERS (88.9 FM; BOSTON, MA; Owner: EMERSON COLLEGE)
W267AI (101.3 FM; BOSTON, MA; Owner: MCC BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.)
WBOS (92.9 FM; BROOKLINE, MA; Owner: GREATER BOSTON RADIO, INC.)
WBMX (98.5 FM; BOSTON, MA; Owner: INFINITY RADIO OPERATIONS INC.)
WJMN (94.5 FM; BOSTON, MA; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
WCRB (102.5 FM; WALTHAM, MA; Owner: CHARLES RIVER BROADCASTING WCRB LICE)
WTKK (96.9 FM; BOSTON, MA; Owner: GREATER BOSTON RADIO, INC.)
WROR-FM (105.7 FM; FRAMINGHAM, MA; Owner: GREATER BOSTON RADIO, INC.)
WBUR-FM (90.9 FM; BOSTON, MA; Owner: TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY)
WGBH (89.7 FM; BOSTON, MA; Owner: WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION)
WODS (103.3 FM; BOSTON, MA; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING OPERATIONS, INC.)
WHRB (95.3 FM; CAMBRIDGE, MA; Owner: HARVARD RADIO BROADCASTING CO., INC.)
WZBC (90.3 FM; NEWTON, MA; Owner: TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE)
WMBR (88.1 FM; CAMBRIDGE, MA; Owner: TECHNOLOGY BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
WFNX (101.7 FM; LYNN, MA; Owner: MCC BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.)
WRBB (104.9 FM; BOSTON, MA; Owner: NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY)

TV broadcast stations around Brookline:
WBPX (Channel 68; BOSTON, MA; Owner: PAXSON BOSTON-68 LICENSE, INC.)
WTMU-LP (Channel 32; BOSTON, MA; Owner: ZGS BOSTON, INC.)
WCEA-LP (Channel 58; BOSTON, MA; Owner: CHANNEL 19 TV CORPORATION)
WHDH-TV (Channel 7; BOSTON, MA; Owner: WHDH-TV)
WCVB-TV (Channel 5; BOSTON, MA; Owner: WCVB HEARST-ARGYLE TV, INC.)
WSBK-TV (Channel 38; BOSTON, MA; Owner: VIACOM INC.)
WLVI-TV (Channel 56; CAMBRIDGE, MA; Owner: WLVI, INC.)
WGBH-TV (Channel 2; BOSTON, MA; Owner: WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION)
WMFP (Channel 62; LAWRENCE, MA; Owner: WSAH LICENSE, INC.)
WFXT (Channel 25; BOSTON, MA; Owner: FOX TELEVISION STATIONS INC.)
WBZ-TV (Channel 4; BOSTON, MA; Owner: VIACOM INC.)
WGBX-TV (Channel 44; BOSTON, MA; Owner: WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION)
W40BO (Channel 40; BOSTON, MA; Owner: PAXSON COMMUNICATIONS LPTV, INC.)
WUTF (Channel 66; MARLBOROUGH, MA; Owner: TELEFUTURA BOSTON LLC)
WWDP (Channel 46; NORWELL, MA; Owner: NORWELL TELEVISION, LLC)
WFXZ-CA (Channel 24; BOSTON, MA; Owner: BOSTON BROADCASTING CORP.)
WUNI (Channel 27; WORCESTER, MA; Owner: ENTRAVISION HOLDINGS, LLC)
WLNE-TV (Channel 6; NEW BEDFORD, MA; Owner: FREEDOM BROADCASTING OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND, INC.)
WPRI-TV (Channel 12; PROVIDENCE, RI; Owner: TVL BROADCASTING OF RHODE ISLAND, LLC)
WNAC-TV (Channel 64; PROVIDENCE, RI; Owner: WNAC, LLC)
WJAR (Channel 10; PROVIDENCE, RI; Owner: OUTLET BROADCASTING, INC.)
WSBE-TV (Channel 36; PROVIDENCE, RI; Owner: RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TELECOM. AUTHORITY)