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on after the park was finished. This was done, the city profited by the change financially, 

 and the park gained greatly by the change. In many cases a client is so occupied with 

 the multitudinous details that keep starting up when a home is to be evolved that the 

 protection of his surroundings is lost sight of, and salient points that might have been 

 secured at a reasonable price before his work was started now soar out of his reach, and 

 he realizes too late that it would have been more satisfactory to have called in a landscape 

 architect at the beginning, and had this drawn to his attention in time. 



In reply to a question of Mr. Lowrie, Mr. Olmsted said that the designer of Llewellyn Park was 

 given on the maps as L. F. Haskel. L. S. Haskel (a possible misprint for L. F. Haskel) was given as owner. 



Referring to Mr. Vaux's statement of the recommendation of Olmsted and Vaux to acquire additional 

 lands for Prospect Park, south of Flatbush Avenue, in order to sell off the land on the north side after the 

 park was finished, Mr. Olmsted said that only a very small part of the land had actually been sold, and that 

 part of it had been used for the high-service reservoir and part for the library. 



Mr. Parsons said that little if any was sold; possibly some across the Eastern Parkway, but none on 

 the west side of the Parkway, as property had been condemned for park purposes, and therefore could 

 not be sold. 



JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION 



By WARREN H. MANNING 

 (MeetinB of December 11. 1906. Revised February 11, 1910) 



THE idea of commemorating by an exposition the first permanent settlement in 

 America, made at Jamestown Island, in the James River in Virginia, May 13, 

 1607, first suggested in Richmond, was taken up in earnest by Norfolk citizens, 

 who secured legislative authority to organize a corporation and raise money to aid in 

 establishing a commemorative exposition on or near Hampton Roads. The Jamestown 

 Exposition Company was incorporated, $1,500,000 was appropriated, contingent upon 

 the company's securing paid subscriptions of a portion of the $1,500,000 authorized 

 capital. 



The organizers, having examined several expositions, were impressed with the vast 

 waste which grew out of their being located on land not owned by the exposition company, 

 which compelled the removal of the buildings very soon after the exposition closed. They, 

 determining to arrange for a more permanent exposition, purchased about three hundred 

 acres of land on the present site, to which they later added fifty more acres, upon the 

 advice of their landscape designer. In order to secure control of a very picturesque point 

 of land and Bousch's Creek, a channel was dug, giving access to the easterly end of their 

 first purchase, and also considerable areas of marsh land. On this land, last purchased, 

 it would have been possible for outsiders to establish competing attractions detrimental 

 to the exposition company. All these purchases were on the south shore of Hampton 

 Roads opposite Old Point Comfort. 



This gave a water frontage of nearly a mile on this great harbor on the north; on 

 the east was Bousch's Creek, a tidal estuary, with the many ramifications peculiar to 

 such estuaries in this region. Of these ramifications two arms extended into the grounds 

 for several hundred feet, and another extended far back of the grounds, then returned 

 to near its southerly boundary. These topographical features I will refer to again. 



