AMERICAN MASTERPIECES 



The design of the World's Fair 

 grounds was largely due to Frederick Law 

 Olmsted, Sr. Several other men helped. 

 Mr. Daniel H. Burnh£im was largely re- 

 sponsible for the architecture and archi- 

 tectural effects in the landscape ensemble. 

 The result, as a whole, is most emphatically 

 entitled to stand as one of the great master- 

 pieces of American landscape architecture. 



Number Three. Mount Royal, Montreal, 

 is a beautiful mountain. It rises to a height 

 of 740 feet from a broad, level plain. It 

 stands beside an incomparable river and 

 looks down on a busy, modern, picturesque 

 city. It is a most unusual combination. 



As a piece of landscape gardening, Mount 

 Royal presents the effect of a remarkable 

 piece of natural scenery most effectively 

 and unaccountably let alone. It was a 

 masterly conception of Frederick Law Olm- 

 sted, in the first instance, that the place 

 should be left in its natural character. For 

 this plan he labored with pain and disap- 

 pointment as though he were shedding his 

 very life blood for a result always to be 

 withheld. And yet, circumstances have co- 

 operated to maintain his design. Or, if 

 his design has not been actually developed, 



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