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PARK AND ce:me:te:ry 
A survey having been made definite plans were 
prepared by the landscape architect, Sid. J. Hare, 
of Kansas City, showing the location of buildings, 
trees, shrubs, flower garden, bog garden, rock 
garden and many other features that have since 
been worked into the landscape under his direction. 
evergreens and lower growing shrubs. j 
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The house faces south and through vistas made in | 
the outer belt of trees, views were secured of the j 
most beautifully formed country to be seen in the j 
West. The landscape slopes gradually to the south i 
to the beautiful valley of Indian Creek, then gradu- j 
THE GROUNDS IN 1905. SEEN FROM POINT MARKED X IN ABOVE PICTURE. 
Advantage was taken of the few natural features 
that existed. 
The belt of trees has been broken up, by cutting 
out those of no real value, thinning out others and 
dropping in groups of trees, tall growing shrubs. 
ally rises and extends for miles, forming a charm- 
ing panorama of farm homes and forest scenery. 
Within the boundry of this ten-acre tract, — the 
south and east corner of a beautiful eighty-acre 
farm, — a surprising transformation has been made 
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THE HOUSE SITE IN 1903. 
