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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
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oard doesnot possess either the money or the authority to enable it tosnatch real estate out of the hands of anybody. Like thetrustees of a public art museum, this Board stands ready toundertake the care of such precious things as may be placedin its charge. It exists to facilitate the preservation ofbeautiful and historical places in Massachusetts, by provid-ing an efficient and permanent organization through whichindividuals and bodies of subscribers may accomplish theirseveral desires. Another passage from the same report describes conciselycertain fruitful activities which he recommended to the Trus-tees and personally superintended. In addition to the sympathetic study of the several sug-gested projects just mentioned, the Committee has from thefirst given serious attention to certain broad questions fromwhich it found itself unable to escape. Massachusetts, as awhole, is shamefully lacking in open spaces reserved expresslyfor enjoyment by the public. The mountain-tops of the in-
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jet. 31)) THE FIRST WORK OF THE TRUSTEES 345 terior, the cliffs and beaches of the seashore, and most of theintervening scenes of special beauty are rapidly passing intothe possession of private owners, who hold these places eitherfor their own private pleasure, or for the profit which maybe reaped from fees collected from the public. Moreover,as population increases, the final destruction of the finestremaining bits of scenery goes on more and more rapidly.Thus the prospect for the future is in many ways a gloomyone, particularly upon the seashore and in the neighborhoodof Boston. Impressed by these considerations, the Committee deter-mined to take action in four directions: first, to thoroughlyinvestigate, and then to publish, the present facts in respectto the provision of public open spaces; secondly, to collectand publish the laws of Massachusetts which permit, or other-wise affect, the acquisition and maintenance of public openspaces; thirdly, to call together the numerous park

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