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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