Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889
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Image 1 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 Frederick Law Olmsted SUBJECT FILE Community Design Boston Mass 1889- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 2 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 1 Brookline Mass 19th 21st February 1889 Henry M Whitney Esq President West End Land Co Dear Sir At your request we have examined the property and plans of your company on…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 3 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 In our opinion the first method promises to be the most profitable to your company for the following reasons First The narrower wheel way of Beacon Street at this point has been…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 4 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 If the main floors of houses in these lots are fixed at the moderate height above the street say eight or ten feet intended by the first method they will not only…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 5 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 Third the high brand some ten or twelve feet high close upon Beacon Street which is a necessity of the second method unless treated in some special and costly way such as…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 6 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 6 Fifth It will be better to have the necessary steep bank in the rear of the Beacon Street lots as by the first method than in the rear of the Prospect…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 7 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 8 Sixth The excess of material that would be excavated under the first method is all needed to fill up neighboring low land belonging to the Company a contractor employed to fill…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 8 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 10 Or one might by swinging the steep bank back in the middle gain more room below it It is a serious objection to the lane that it would almost necessarily have…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 9 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 Ninth As a general rule all lots above a suburban street constructed on a steep hillside should be deeper than those below it because the houses on them can be placed further…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 10 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 Believing that as a means of making the land additionally especially attractive to the most luxurious class of purchasers it would pay to build a good looking retaining wall along the line…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 11 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 We presume that In regard to the drainage of the land our grading plan shows a shallow turfed surface gutter at the top of the steep bank which is intended to prevent…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 12 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 In addition to the above arrangements for surface drainage we recommend that the land especially the steep bank be under drained into drains laid their lot lines If this be not done…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 13 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 ground or higher to having an extreme height to top of roof or other construction of more than sixty five feet above the street curb Other restrictions are first one against any…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 14 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 The possibility of a permanent suburban quarter Sixth against the construction or use of any privy vault or cesspool or outside manure pit- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 15 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 We suggest that all of these restrictions be made absolute for 60 years but and that there be a provision by which after that period they can be modified or set aside…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889
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Image 16 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community design; Boston, Mass., 1889 Report to HM Whitney Beacon St Lots 19th Feby 1889 Not in letter Book Report on plan for developing Beacon St lots on Stevenson Clark estates Contains specifications for restrictions V 12…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1889