The 1917 Reptonian: an annual publication representative of the work in the professional course of landscape gardening at the University of Illinois . Second Prize W. A. Strong Twenty The 19 17 R ept onian Senior Design L. B. Hiebel Notable features of the plan by Mr. Hiebel, to whom third prize wasawarded, are the short and elaborately designed streets connecting thebusiness and civic center, the southeastern diagonal, the several minorstreets with turning places in the center of the block, the good school sites,the well-developed playground in the southern portion of the tract, theutilizatio
The 1917 Reptonian: an annual publication representative of the work in the professional course of landscape gardening at the University of Illinois . Second Prize W. A. Strong Twenty The 19 17 R ept onian Senior Design L. B. Hiebel Notable features of the plan by Mr. Hiebel, to whom third prize wasawarded, are the short and elaborately designed streets connecting thebusiness and civic center, the southeastern diagonal, the several minorstreets with turning places in the center of the block, the good school sites,the well-developed playground in the southern portion of the tract, theutilization of the lands abutting the interurban right-of-way, and the occa-sioned reservations in the interior of the blocks. His lots are generallywell proportioned and show considerable variation in size, to meet therequirements of the variation in wage schedules. The 19 17 Reptonian Twenty-one. srxeer stxTxm fV, PROPOSED SCHEME £-Jfic>r Zfie 41 SEGELOi SVBHVI5I0N MNVLLE ILLINOIS •*«-. Third Prize L. B. HlEBEL Twenty-two The 1917 Reptonian Senior Design W. F. Strong and P. T. Troeger G. S. Rogers A WAYSIDE PARK First Prize PROGRAM OF THE COMPETITION Two Prizes:—The first, $25, and the second, $10, were offered by Mr. Wil-liam G. Hibbard of Chicago, for the best solution of the followingprogram. This competition was open to all students in the pro-fessional course in Landscape Gardening at the University ofIllinois. THE PROBLEM The area to be used for park purposes was a tract of land 275 feetlong and 130 feet wide with the long axis north and south. A public roadlies along l:he east side of the property. The land was level and at thattime bore no tree or shrub growth. A ditch, approximately 15 feet wideand 6 feet deep, was found on both east and south side of the tract. Goodviews out over the Skokie Valley were offered to northeast and southwestand it was suggested t
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