CHARLES N. LOWRIE 



between house and garden is a curving path. This 

 path connects with two other paths which are at 

 right angles to one another, a short east and west 

 path which has a tea house at its eastern end 

 and a long north and south path at the end of 

 which the pergola is seen through an avenue 

 of flowering Crabapples. This long path forms 

 an axis line through the center of the property. 

 The separation of the house and its garden and 

 the seeming disregard of attempting to establish 

 a unity between the house and the layout of the 

 grounds is explained by the fact that, at the time 

 the grounds were developed, it was the expectation 

 of the owner to remove the existing house and to 

 place a new one so that its axis line would conform 

 to that of the centrally located path. 



This long path divides the property into two 

 equal parts. On the west side is the service portion, 

 the road to the garage, the hedge-bounded vege- 

 table garden, laundry yard,- and the orchard. On 

 the east side is the social part, the formal garden 

 with its rose center, the tennis court, the play 

 lawn with its fruit trees, the tea house, and the 

 shady informal path which connects tea house 

 and pergola and then with a curve which dis- 

 guises entirely its intention turns into the court in 



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