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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 /Charles William Eliot
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape gardening
Publisher: Boston :Houghton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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le Commonwas an eyesore. An association, called the Mall Improve-ment Association, was organized to reform the place ; andthis association procured plans from Charles. His generalscheme was to contract the pond somewhat by filling partsof its lowest shores; to leave about it a broad, clean, gravelbeach, because the changing level of the pond made any othershore impracticable ; to provide an adequate number of flightsof steps down the steep banks, and two sloping approachesto the beach, one a footpath, the other a driveway; to repairand protect the grass-banks; and to plant out the ugly rearof the Court House, which rose directly from the beach onthe side of the Mall. These changes involved a good deal ofgravel cutting and filling, and the regrading of considerableareas, some with loam and some with gravel. The plansmade in September, 1887, were accepted, and were butslightly modified in 1888 ; the work was actually begun in1889, and was finished, in its main features, during that sea-
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