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Proposed improvements for Newport; (1913)

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957, Newport Improvement Association · [Cambridge, Mass., The University press] · leaf 32

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BELLEVUE AVENUE, SHOWING HOW A FEW LARGE TREES GIVE QUALITY TO A STREET VIEW EVEN SO COMMON-PLACE AND BALD AS THAT SHOWN ABOVE 16] portant to prevent the existing open space adjacent to the street frombeing obstructed by new buildings. Along many such streets it is also in … WASHINGTON STREET. TO WIDEN THE ROADWAY WOULD DESTROY SOME FINE TREES AND MUCH IMPAIR ITS VALUE AS A PLEASURE DRIVE the interest of the other abutters to have any one individual preventedfrom erecting a new building close out to the street line in advance of all [ 17 ] the rest. A good illustration…

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