Close to the House 



this, and such buildings as his Public Library 

 at Quincy, Massachusetts, which faces on a 

 small and very gently modelled lawn, owe 

 much of their charm to the resultant look of 

 being firmly rooted in the ground. When, 

 on the other hand, the site is rocky, and 

 local stone can be used, rough-faced, for 

 the foundations, the result may be just as 

 charming while a great deal more striking, 

 as we see in another work of Richardson's 

 — the Town Hall at North Easton, Massa- 

 chusetts, where the rock-like turret seems 

 almost to have grown naturally from the 

 rocky hill - side. The beautiful Beverly 

 shore, to the northward of Boston, runs out 

 into little rocky promontories, divided by 

 coves with tiny white beaches ; and on 

 these promontories and the sloping banks 

 of the coves excellent use has been made of 

 natural irregularities of site, each demand- 

 ing a fresh architectural solution, but each 

 permitting a final picture where the house 

 seems indeed to belong in the most intimate 

 way to the special spot it occupies. If such 

 sites as these had been levelled, the house 

 would have been injured as greatly as the 

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