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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
UNIQUE ENTRANCE to TACOMA’S GREAT SCENIC PARK 
Point Defiance Park at Tacoma, Wash., 
is perhaps the most naturally beautiful and 
picturesque park in our country. It con- 
sists of 637 acres on a point of land north- 
west of the city, with a water frontage on 
Puget Sound of 3j4 miles, and is from 100 
to 300 feet above tide level. In the issue 
of August, 1912, was an article explaining 
the proposed changes, improvement and fu- 
ture development of this park, with ex- 
tracts from the reports of and illustrated 
by plans and drawings prepared by Hare & 
Hare, landscape architects, Kansas City, Mo. 
These plans called for the recognition of 
three main divisions of the park. First, 
the portion cut off by the street car, which 
is to be developed as an athletic field, with 
the development is limited to roads and 
paths, with additions of native plants in 
places, and clearings in other places for 
picnic grounds. 
The work the past two years has been 
mostly concentrated in the second division, 
the portion surrounding the entrance and 
the zoo. This work has proceeded in ac- 
cordance with the plans of the landscape 
architects under the personal direction of 
Geo. A. Hill, the superintendent of parks, 
with results most satisfactory to the people 
of Tacoma, who have closely watched the 
change. The first picture will give an idea 
of conditions when work began. The 
roads, paths, buildings and animal enclo- 
sures had been located from time to time 
grades adjusted, and a simple, unified 
treatment of roads and lawns developed. 
The planting, of course, will require some 
years of growth to show the effects pro- 
posed. The greenhouse seen in both views 
is to give place in the future to a large 
animal house, the main building of the zoo. 
This building will be the dominant feature 
of this expanse of lawn. 
On the point of land to the right will be 
another important building of the zoo. This 
site is on the axis of the main street ap- 
proaching the park. The remaining zoo- 
logical arrangements will be on the higher 
ground to the left. The large trees form- 
ing the background of the picture are in 
the natural portions of the park. The pond 
ENTRANCE TO POINT DEFIANCE PARK BEFORE IMPROVED! ENT. 
ENTRANCE TO POINT DEFIANCE PARK AFTER IMPROVEMENT. 
Hare & Hare, landscape architects. 
a small portion devoted to service build- 
ings, greenhouses, etc. ; second, the portion 
including the entrance and zoological build- 
ings, to have the highest ornamental devel- 
opment; and third, the wildwood, where 
by various people, with no general scheme 
in mind, and the result was haphazard. 
The second picture shows the result of two 
years’ work, the poorly located buildings, 
pens, paths and walks eliminated, the 
which forms the center of the concave 
lawn has undergone some change in size 
and form and now presents an attractive 
display of beautiful water lilies and aquatic 
plants. 
GROUPING OF CEMETERY ENTRANCE and BUILDINGS 
A most interesting grouping of adminis- 
tration buildings and entrance has been de- 
veloped at Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Neb., 
where the office and superintendent’s resi- 
dence, placed on opposite sides of the en 
trance drive, are connected by balconies ex- 
tending over the driveway. 
A wide curving parked approach to the 
entrance also adds much to the impressive- 
ness of the general effect. 
The entire distance across the entrance, 
including the width of the two buildings, is 
\A6 l /> feet, the porches and drives includ- 
ing about 60 feet. The residence is 45x45 
feet and the office 42x32 feet. The build- 
ings are of brick and stucco, with oak in- 
teriors, are of very attractive architecture 
and well arranged for their respective uses. 
The buildings cost about $43,148 and were 
designed by Architect L. A. Lamoreaux, of 
Minneapolis. 
The parkway that may be seen in our 
picture in front of the buildings includes a 
space of about 250x207 feet. The buildings 
are well set off by planting, made up prin- 
cipally of the following trees and shrubs : 
Blue spruce, Austrian pine, mountain ash, 
arbor vitae, cedar or juniper, spiraea, lilac, 
dogwood, syringa, hydrangea, snowballs 
and forsythia. The vine on the buildings 
is Ampelopsis Veitchii. 
Another interesting view in Wyuka, 
shown here, is the receiving vault and sev- 
eral private mausoleums on one of the 
brick-paved drives. 
The vault is built of stone and has a ca- 
pacity of twelve bodies. The cemetery ex- 
pects in the near future to build a new 
vault and chapel. There is 135 feet of 
brick paving 18 feet wide in the cemetery. 
The rest of the drives are of cinders, al- 
though it is the intention soon to rebuild 
them with concrete or asphalt. 
