The Cottage Farm Historic District is a residential area in eastern Brookline, Massachusetts, United States, known for its association with industrialist Amos Adams Lawrence (1814–1886).

Laid out in the 1850s and centered around the junction of Essex and Ivy Streets, it features high-quality housing on large lots, built between the 1850s and 1910s.

[1] The area that is now Cottage Farm was, in the 17th century, part of a large meadowland owned by jurist Samuel Sewall, bounded on the north by the Charles River and the south by the Muddy River, west of the latter's mouth.

In the early 19th century, this property was acquired by David Sears, who built a house in the Cottage Farm area in 1844 for his son Frederick.

Amos Lawrence acquired the Cottage Farm tract from Sears in 1850, built a house for his family in 1851, and began subdividing and building out the property.