Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957, Newport Improvement Association · [Cambridge, Mass., The University press] · leaf 48
studied the location of sucha street with some care and,though I have obtained no esti-mates of the cost of land dam-ages or construction, I am con-vinced not only that the totalcost would be much less than thecost for a radical widening ofThames Street, but that the prop-erty damages would be less… … 33 ] suggested, for it would involve too serious an interference with the shippingand harbor interests of the City. Wharves and other commercial propertyshould be left on the west side of the new street. The property throughwhich this new street would cut is now very largely idle or cheaply…
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