THE SMALL PLACE 



car line is located and gives a pleasant opportunity 

 for the daily use of the property. 



On one side of the South lawn, on the east side 

 of the property, are the drive, service court, and 

 garage. They have been put there to be near the 

 kitchen and out of the view of the living room 

 windows and the porches. This seems such a 

 logical arrangement that it is difficult to under- 

 stand the possibilities of any other, and yet in the 

 scheme first arranged before the landscape archi- 

 tect's services were solicited, the drive swung 

 around the back of the house and ended in a turn- 

 around and garage at the west side of the property 

 directly in back of the living rooms. A hard 

 gravel strip of drive would have divided the house 

 from the entire back of the property and garage 

 and turn-around enclosure would have hidden it 

 away from view. It was to have been a sorry 

 prosaic place full of the cares of a household. It 

 needed a bigger vision to relegate all the service 

 to the kitchen side of the house and in that way 

 preserve an unbroken lawn which could be enclosed 

 by quiet foliage, enlivened by the color of flowers, 

 and made pleasant by the play of shadows on the 

 grass. It needed an imagination to create this 



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