RECREATION PARKS 



submit visitors to unnecessary annoyance in the way of noise should be 

 tabooed, and also the features prevalent in amusement parks which 

 subject visitors to a constant temptation to spend money. A recrea- 

 tion park must have sufficient of interest to forestall such remarks as 

 " It's a big place but nothing special there," without by any possibility 

 offering such a multiplicity of features as to become wearisome and 

 confusing, and to register as a beach resort or amusement park. 



APPROPRIATE BUILDINGS 



Exhibits in parks should be limited to those that relate directly to, 

 or serve the interests of, the park. Ornithological and entomological 

 collections are very pertinent interests in parks, herbarium collections 

 properly displayed would undoubtedly attract the attention of many, 

 and a complete exhibition of tree pathology, including display of 

 modern scientific methods of tree surgery, can prove of very real 

 interest, as evidenced by the popular exhibition in the public park at 

 Greensboro, N. C. Such exhibits suitable for parks are not as ex- 

 pensive to get together as would be supposed, and are vastly more 

 appropriate in such location than historical or art collections for which 

 civic museums have usually already been provided. 



In the design of all park buildings there should be main- 

 tained as park-like character as possible. The architecture of tea 

 houses and refectories should be of an open-air type, not meaning, by 

 that, fragile rustic construction, but more the sort of architecture 

 which has been developed in connection with country clubs, as for 

 example that at Norfolk, Va. Architectural suggestions for shelters 

 and pavilions in the parks may be found among the beautiful garden 

 houses that adorn many old parks and gardens in Europe, and some 

 of our own fine gardens. The minor shelters, of which there should be 

 many, may occasionally be constructed in rustic material, particularly 

 when given a picturesque setting in odd places among trees and foliage. 



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