RAILROAD STATION GROUNDS 
mental treatment of the grounds. The importance of these grounds 
is readily conceded when we consider the civic character of the 
railway station as a principal community entrance. The railway 
station, being the front door to the neighborhood, should have the 
same artistic qualities as the front door of a public building or private 
residence. Briefly stated these requirements are as follows: 
(1) Practicable traffic connections 
(2) Orderly arrangement 
(3) Cleanliness 
(4) Dignity 
(5) Hospitality 
In short, the station grounds are to be made inviting. To 
give them the required dignity and attractiveness some use of trees 
and grass is to be strongly urged. Any elaborate gardening with 
tender herbaceous stock is generally inappropriate at a rural rail- 
way station where practically no funds are available for mainten- 
ance. It may be doubted whether plantings of shrubbery are 
desirable unless some definite provision can be made for up-keep. 
In general the great need in the design of rural station grounds 
if for an orderly and logical arrangement of the various units. 
Illustrations 
The examples here reproduced are drawn from paced surveys 
of existing railway grounds. 
Problems 
The pupil should redraw one of these plans in ink at a scale of 
1” = 40’. This will give opportunity for a more careful consider- 
ation of the problems involved. 
Next the pupil should make a paced survey and map of some 
rural or suburban station grounds somewhere in his own neighbor- 
hood. If there be a class of several members as many different 
grounds should be surveyed as can be reached. A comparison of the 
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