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Identifier: architectenginee6220sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ted somewhat in the Mexican style with sidewalkarcades and balconies. The slope west of the square and north of the athleticfield should be used for the erection of detached houses of a better class, asthe surroundings and outlook are capable of a very attractive development.Driveways giving access to this area leading into Main Street and Broadway areindicated. Any future development ofMain Street and First Street between the PublicSquare and the railroad station should be planned to form a pleasing entranceto the town, as these stretches of street will afford the incoming stranger hisfirst impression of Clarkdale. The general plans with the birdseye views and perspectives embodied inthis report will serve to further illustrate the proposed solution of this townsite problem. The drawings and sketches should be followed closely in study-ing this report. The general birdseye view indicates the proposed develop-ments of the playgrounds to the left, the promenade along Main Street in the
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COMPARATINE DEVELOPMENTS* OF BUSINESS ON MAIN STREET BETWEEN NINTHAND TENTH STREETS, CLARKDALE, ARIZONA Herding & Boyd, Architects center, and the athletic field, formal gardens, library and church on the plateauto the right with the Ninth Street plaza in the background. The station should be by all means on the town side of the railroad and onthe axis of First Street. At the end of First North Street and Fourth Streeta plaza should be developed surrounding the station on the west and south.This plaza and First and Main Streets in the vicinity of the plaza should bebuilt up with hotels, restaurants and shops. The treatment of the blocks facingthe plaza is suggested in the Mexican style. A hotel and restaurant buildingis indicated on Fourth Street at the southwest corner of the plaza. This ar-rangement will bring First Street into more prominence than at present, makingit in fact the main traffic artery between the railroad station and the PublicSquare, at which point local traffi

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