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PARK AND CEMETERY . 
A SERVICEABLE AND ECONOMICAL PARK SHELTER 
EMPLOYEES' SHELTER AND TOOL HOUSE. 
Lincoln Park, Chicago. 
We have previously illustrated and 
described the vast number of useful 
and ornamenal pieces of concrete fur- 
niture and utilities that Superintend- 
ent M. H. West has built and used 
in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Concrete 
bridges, buildings, lamp posts, bench- 
es, and numerous other park struc- 
tures from field houses to under- 
ground garbage boxes have been con- 
structed and very successfully used. 
In all his work Mr. West has given 
careful attention to artistic design, 
surface treatment and harmony with 
the landscape. Bridges, boat houses, 
pavilions and comfort stations have 
been made to admirably serve their 
purpose and yet be as unobtrusive in 
the landscape as shrubbery screens, 
terraces and other devices of the land- 
scape architect could make them. 
Mr. West has just recently built 
a little combined police and garden- 
er’s shelter of concrete that is a 
good example of simplicity, economy 
and harmony with the landscape that 
will be suggestive to anybody who is 
confronted with the necessity of build- 
ing a small shelter or other house in 
the park or cemetery grounds. Sev- 
eral of these shelters are being in- 
stalled in Lincoln Park to accommo- 
date the entire park force. Each one 
is about eleven by eight and a half 
feet in ground dimensions, and the 
arrangement of the interior may be 
readily seen from the plans illustrat- 
ed here. 
The buildings have a cement rough 
cast finish of stone grey, green shin- 
gle roof and French windows. They 
are arranged so as to form a shelter 
for police officers, and contain a gar- 
dener’s closet of sufficient size to hold 
a wheelbarrow and necessary tools. 
Each shelter is supplied with a stove 
and toilet facilities. They are built 
by the park forces at a cost of ap- 
proximately $250 each. 
The toilets and plumbing are frost 
proof, and the exterior design is very 
decorative and pleasing, both in color 
and surface. 
The French windows, massive roof- 
beams and door posts, and the col- 
ored roof give character and color to 
the exterior and harmonize admirably 
with the rural surroundings. The con- 
struction throughout has been given 
every attention that will make for 
durability, beauty and economy. 
FRONT ELEVATION, LINCOLN PARK SHELTER. FLOOR PLAN, LINCOLN PARK SHELTER. 
