Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957, Newport Improvement Association · [Cambridge, Mass., The University press] · leaf 26
pen sunny spaces are a foil to the trees,and it is astonishing how two or three trees overhanging from between thehouses will convert an otherwise bare and rather mean-looking street intoone of much interest. The fact that these trees are so frequently to be found growing in theside yards of houses… … SUBTLE ACCIDENTAL CURVES AND ANGLESABOUND IN FENCES AND IN CURBS in the older parts of the city the economizing of land and crowding of houseswas done mainly by making the lots shallower, thus curtailing the land onthe front and the back where there waslight and air to spare, instead of narrow-ing…
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