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 (1902)
enefit of aninvalid sister. The course of true love had already beenmuch impeded, and now the whole wide continent was todivide the lovers. Li the late autumn of 1887 and the winter of 1888 Charlesmade plans for laying out the Norton estate in Cambridge inlots suitable for a good class of houses.… … ^T. 28] DIVIDING THE NORTON ESTATE 215 lots of moderate size and with desirable exposures, by streetsthat should lead well towards the existing lines of railway andthe other quarters of Cambridge. Charles rejected the ordi-nary American method of dividing unoccupied land into rec-tangular lots…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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