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Title: 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 /Charles William Eliot
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape gardening
Publisher: Boston :Houghton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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allytake care of themselves. The cost of the grading work it is hard to foresee, but itcould not be much. In the following September he wrote a short article enti-tled A Village Church, and illustrated it by a plan anda sketch. The article and plan are here reproduced, and aphotograph of the church and grounds approximately in theirpresent (1902) state is given instead of the sketch. A VILLAGE CHURCH. Sept. 18, 88. In the heart of the township of Weston, Massachusetts,four country roads meet at the town flagstaff. Beside theflagstaff stands the village church, and just across the wayare the town hall, and a country store, and the sheds for thevehicles which bring the townsmen to Sunday and town meet-ing. The accompanying plan shows the irregular arrange-ment of the buildings, the curves of the roadways as theywere determined by the lay of the land, the bounding fieldwalls, the grassy spaces at the roadsides, and the trees andshrubberies which break and partly hide the stiffness of the
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