Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957, Newport Improvement Association · [Cambridge, Mass., The University press] · leaf 22
to dependin large part upon certainobvious physical conditions,as follows: In the first place itsscale is small and intimate.The roadways are narrow,sometimes to the point ofgreat inconvenience undermodern traffic conditions,seldom over thirty-threefeet in width, often undertwenty-four feet,… … A BIT OF THE PICTURESQUE STREET SCENERY OF OLD NEWPORT— CLARK STREET 7 1 older buildings, both public and private, are also small in scale, many ofthem with that delicacy of detail, even in the case of very simple andtechnically crude detail, that is so characteristic of colonial work. Onlythe…
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