Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good . ted, Olmsted & Eliot, Landscape & Austin, T. Pierce, Engineer. On the 24th of December, Charles had the satisfaction ofwriting in his diary : Board adopted new scheme for housein rear of driveway. This house was the large adminis-tration building and bath-house with tunnels under the drive-way for the passage of bathers. The Commission had beengradually convinced that the curve of the crest o
Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good . ted, Olmsted & Eliot, Landscape & Austin, T. Pierce, Engineer. On the 24th of December, Charles had the satisfaction ofwriting in his diary : Board adopted new scheme for housein rear of driveway. This house was the large adminis-tration building and bath-house with tunnels under the drive-way for the passage of bathers. The Commission had beengradually convinced that the curve of the crest of the beachshould not be interrupted by buildings projecting on to thebeach ; and they finally came unanimously to Charless opin-ion on this vital point. In the whole course of Metropolitan Park business no eventgave Charles more satisfaction than this ultimate agreementto preserve the crest of Revere Beach from the intrusion ofbuildings; and, it may be added, no determination of theCommission has ever been more promptly or more completelyjustified. In writing to his friend and coadjutor, Mr. Syl-vester Baxter, on January 23, 1897, about the report of the. ONE MILE AND A QUARTER OFShowing the beach, the approaches, the driveway and pi
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