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MAIN ENTRANCE AND OFFICE, FOREST LAWN CEMETERY, OMAHA, NEB. 
Excellent Grouping of Carriage Drive, Foot Paths, Street Car Entrance and Building. 
TYPES OF CEMETERY GATES AND ENTRANCES 
The designing of a cemetery entrance is 
one of the most difficult problems with 
which the landscape architect is confront- 
ed. The plan and construction work must 
be such as to provide for the traffic and 
utilitarian uses of the gateways ; to present 
a sightly view from both within and with- 
out the grounds; to arrange for the loca- 
tion of the necessary administration build- 
ing, and to provide the maximum of se- 
curity when the grounds are closed to the 
public. 
There has been much progress made in 
the landscape effects in cemetery entrances 
within the past few years, especially in the 
matter of skillful planting and the placing 
of the buildings to secure pleasing views. 
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Neb., 
had a very unusual and difficult problem 
to solve in its construction by reason of 
having to provide not only for the or- 
dinary carriage and foot travel, but for a 
street car entrance as well. 
One of our photographs shows how suc- 
cessfully the conditions have been met by 
the arrangement of a double entrance with 
a stretch of fence between. The office 
building stands just behind this connecting 
fence, and when the foliage and planting is 
at its best the picture is even more attract- 
ive than shown in our illustration. 
The main driveway at the entrance is 40 
feet ; as it winds around the ground it be- 
comes 25 feet. The other driveways in the 
grounds are 20 feet. The boulevard lead- 
ing to the grounds from the main thor- 
oughfare to the city from the north is 150 
feet wide. The walks are 6 feet. The 
posts are of granite and are 3 feet square 
at base, with a shaft 2 X / feet square. The 
base is 2 feet high, the shaft 6 feet and 
the ball about 3 feet in diameter. The 
office building is a fine piece of architec- 
ture in Roman brick with slate roof. The 
office and waiting rooms are on the main 
floor. Street cars enter the cemetery at 
the rear of the office building, and arrange- 
ments have been made so that there is 
ample accommodation for street cars, car- 
riages and visitors on foot. 
A plan of the entrance illustrated here 
shows the general layout of the grounds at 
this point and the course of the main drive- 
way as it approaches the beautiful new 
chapel which is described elsewhere in this 
issue. 
The planting at the entrance includes the 
following trees : Ulmus Americana, gluti- 
nosa, incana, pendula and fulva ; Betula 
alba ; Piea glauca, Engelmanii and pun- 
gens ; Pinus, Austriaca, mugho, ffexilis and 
sylvestris; Salix dolorosa; Elaeagnus, ole- 
aster and angustifolia ; Acer plantanus; 
Abies Douglasii ; Juniperus Virginiana ; 
Thuya occidentalis. 
One of the most interesting examples of 
a simple, effective treatment of entrance 
and fence is the new rear entrance to Har- 
mony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass., illus- 
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PLAN OF ENTRANCE, FOREST LAWN CEMETERY, OMAHA, NEB. 
Showing Layout of Gateway Structures, and Location of New Chapel. 
