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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesga41907newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A Street from Without sweeps following the lines of the ravines, giving a picturesque quality to the village only obtainable by such methods. An- other plan for civic betterment has been thought of in the laying out of the village; that is, none of the houses have their backs to the railway line. We are only too familiar with the miserable surroundings of most railways near large factories, not to appreciate what this alone means in beauti- fying Port Sunlight. The roads are of excellent proportion, being forty feet wide, the majority having eight yards of roadway and eight feet each for foot- paths. A few of the widest roads have twelve yards for roadway and twelve feet for pavements. Several of the ra- vines are spanned by well designed bridges, which are distinctive features. Another interest- ing feature is t h e open-air theater, sit- uated in Dell Park. The fresh green sward of the park is It has a seating ac- The entire pleasingly broken by red gravel paths, commodation of two thousand four hundred, floor has been cemented, a most necessary precaution in the damp climate of England. The natural slope of the banks of the ravine has lent itself admirably to the arrangement of seats raised one above the other, on the classic lines of the Colosseum.
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Shingled and Hatf-timbered Cottages

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