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Title: Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape architects
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he Craigie house, which theLongfellow family preserves in Cambridge, is now almost thesole surviving representative of the terraced and high-walledstateliness of the colonial days. Boston and her surrounding sister cities grow continually.Farm after farm and garden after garden are invaded bystreets, sewers, and water-pipes, owners being fairly compelledto sell lands which are taxed more and more heavily. Beforedestruction overtakes the few old seats now remaining, it willbe well to make some sort of record of their character andbeauty. About eight miles from the State House, one of the roadsof the Charles River valley, after passing through a somewhatsqualid manufacturing district, suddenly becomes a rural lane,which winds its shady way first past the low-roofed farmhouse THE GORE PLACE AT WALTHAM 241 iET. 29) and then past the lawn and mansion of what is plainly an oldestate. . . . (The accompanying plan shows the general ar-rangement of the estate.) The grass sweeps up to the walls
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The Gore Place, Waltham, Mass. of this long south front. No line of any sort breaks the flow-ing breadth of the lawn, for the approach-road, which leavesthe lane near the farmhouse, goes around through the treesto the door in the north front of the house. The simple butwell-proportioned building is set off against a background offoliage, and the epds of the low wings are shadowed by tallPines and Chestnuts, whose brothers, forming noble massesat the sides of the lawn, support and frame the house, and, 242 SIX OLD AMERICAN COUNTRY-SEATS (1889 joined with it, compose one satisfying picture. On the furtherside of the lane is an open field and a winding pond, whosedistant further end is lost in the shadow of a Pine wood, fromout the edge of which a White Birch leans over the water.Larches, too, and small Beeches grow in the edge of this dis-tant wood, and enliven the darkness of the Pines in spring andautumn, while here and there above the tops of the treesappear the crests of low hills,

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