PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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LAKEWOOD, THE COMPLETE LAWN PLAN CEMETERY 
Probabl}^ no cemetery in the coun- 
try is more scrupulously developed on 
the lawn plan than Lakewood of Min- 
neapolis. It is known among the 
large cemeteries of the country as the 
one that is completely “on the level”. 
It is old enough to hav^ attained a 
wood. The beautiful mortuary chapel 
and crematory described in our last 
issue, is a fair example of the way 
every improvement has been garried 
out in these grounds. 
In addition to the booklet descrip- 
tive of the chapel discussed in our last 
maintained even where monuments 
are freely used. It also illustrates ad- 
mirably the lesson we have frequently 
urged in these pages that the better 
the cemetery the better the class of 
monuments that will be erected in it. 
The massive, simple monuments 
SECTION SEVENTEEN, LAKEWOOD; A LEVEL LAWN AND A BETTER CLASS OF MONUMENTS. 
mature development of its natural 
features, and yet not so old as to have 
its ancient, uncared for sections that 
were filled up in the old graveyard 
days before the park idea of cemetery 
development was born. Lakewood, 
by the wisdom of its founders, lead- 
ing citizens of Minneapolis, many of 
whom are still identified with its man- 
agement, was right from the start. 
It has been improving through the 
succeeding years, as steadily -as intel- 
ligent and careful management, and 
perfect landscape gardening could 
bring about. 
No improvement that careful 
thought of the best minds in the com- 
munity or generous expenditure could 
produce, has been denied to Lake- 
issue, Lakewood has just issued an 
illustrated book of the grounds, exe- 
cuted in the finest style of the graphic 
arts. This shows some park views of 
rare beauty that illustrate to a re- 
markable degree how everything has 
been subordinated to the single idea 
of perfect landscape development. 
The book is a fine example of publicity 
for cemetery beauty in every respect, 
and contains in addition valuable his- 
toric information about the details of 
management embodied in the modern 
regulations. 
The pictures shown here from the 
Lakewood book, are typical of the 
book and of the grounds. The view 
in Section 17 shows clearly how 
the unbroken lawn and fine trees are 
shown in this view, are all of the bet- 
ter class of cemetery memorials. The 
scene is marred by none of the mis- 
shapen stock forms of the “cottage” 
style or stock angels atop of ill-pro- 
portioned, over-decorated pedestals. 
Another picture shows the lodge in 
the foreground, and the rest house in 
the distance. Both have been framed 
into the scene and almost concealed 
with a luxury of careful planting 
that makes them an integral part of 
the landscape picture. The lodge is 
built of Jasper with a tile roof and 
cost about $3,000. 
The rest house seen at closer range 
in another of our pictures is built of 
brick with outer walls of splashed 
concrete, and roof of Spanish tile. 
