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)
wall in the English fashion. AtKittery, at New Bedford, and elsewhere, not to speak ofnumerous, but fast disappearing examples near Boston, man-sions of this character may be seen standing well out of townin small parks of their own. It should be noted that thethree old Bostonian country-seats,… … ^T. 29] CLERMONT ON THE HUDSON 251 Passing now from New England to New York, from theregion of small hills, ponds, and streams which surroundsBoston to the prospect-commanding banks of the broad Hud-sou, and again selecting ancient country-seats which excel inpoint of design, we come first to…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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