PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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FLOOR PLAN OF RECEIVING VAULT. 
pense necessary to secure appropriate structures, 
both in regard to appearance and finish. The most 
recent ideas connected with convenient cemetery 
offices have been taken advantage of, to the end 
that business may be facilitated as well as the cem- 
etery itself made more attractive thereby. 
The question of harmonious landscape effects is 
of every day discussion, but the relation of the 
cemetery buildings to the landscape is not so often 
considered; yet that is a most important point, and 
in fact buildings mar or make a vista, just as far 
as they are considered in relation to their surround- 
ings. 
In the case of Homewood the substantial yet 
picturesque buildings, the hilly nature of the ground, 
the plantings for landscape effect and the beautiful 
lawns as the prevailing feature of the lawn plan of 
cemetery design, are all elements, which combined 
in harmonious relations lend themselves to the 
creating of an attractive and beautiful cemetery. 
OFFICE BUILDING. 
includes the bridge over the rav- 
ine, cost over thirty thousand 
dollars. 
The Lodge, which is the Sec- 
retary’s residence, and which ap- 
pears in two of the illustrations 
herewith, is constructed of Ohio 
stone, and was built at a 
cost of eight thousand dollars. 
The stone office building cost 
twelve thousand dollars. 
It is evident that in providing 
buildings of such character and 
cost, the management had no 
temporary views in mind. Besides 
being constructed of materials to 
ensure permanence, the designs 
selected display decided taste, 
and a disposition on the part of 
those in control to spare no ox- 
receiving VAULT. 
Natural conditions have much to do with the 
design and selection of accessories in cemetery 
work, and it is upon the ability to harmonize and 
corelate the several factors that gives greater or 
less value to the results. 
The number of interments to date amount to 
7047, irregularly distributed over the past years. 
The cemetery employs an average of eighteen 
men the year round. 
The tract was originally laid out by Mr' George 
Fortune. The superintendent now in charge of 
the cemetery is Mr. David Woods, who for many 
years has been identified with the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintendents. 
