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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ORGANIZING and DEVELOPING a MODERN CEMETERY 
By Sid J . Hare and S. Herbert Hare, Landscape Architects, Kansas City, Mo. 
IX. ENTRANCE, BUILDINGS AND MONUMENTS. 
While it has been shown that the suc- 
cess of a cemetery depends first upon 
proper site and location and later upon 
careful landscape development, including 
the problems of roads, paths, lot and plant- 
Careless or incompetent architectural serv- 
ice is the poorest investment which a ceme- 
tery can make, and the worst example 
which can be set to the lot owners. 
Cemeteries soon reflect the architectural 
the more established styles, especially the 
simple classic forms which had been used 
so successfully from colonial times, fell 
into disuse or were sadly perverted. 
Wierd constructions, the so-called beauty 
ILLUSTRATING TENDENCY TOWARD SIMPLICITY OF LINE AND REFINEMENT OF ORNA- 
MENT IN MODERN MEMORIAL ART. 
ing arrangement as well as building sites, 
nevertheless the entrance lodge, chapel and 
office, as well as the various public or pri- 
vate vaults or mausoleums and memorials, 
present some varied and interesting prob- 
lems in architecture, the solution of which 
will enhance or mar the landscape beauty. 
taste of a community and the general ar- 
chitectural excellence of the time. The last 
half or two-thirds of the nineteenth cen- 
tury was a period of unrest in architec- 
tural design and of poor taste in general 
in matters of aesthetics, as viewed from 
the present attitude. During this period 
of which was based more upon interest in 
detail than in mass or composition, sprang 
up all over our land — the types which have 
been facetiously referred to by various 
people as “Early Boarding House,” “Pull- 
man Car Style of ’76,” “German Eliza- 
bethan,” and other equally uncompliment- 
ary terms. While the towns and cities have 
many examples of this class of buildings 
in court houses and city halls, as well as 
privately owned buildings and residences, 
the cemeteries of the period also suffered 
much, perhaps most, because of the lack of 
restrictions and regulations. The monu- 
ments, few of which were good in them- 
selves, when placed amid a jungle of stone 
work, each striving to outdo the neighbor- 
ing one in size, height or ornate carving, 
effectually prevented any feeling of dig- 
nity or quiet peace. 
It is most pleasant to note the change 
of the past decade or two. It seems that 
the country is experiencing a renaissance 
in architecture, and again the cemeteries 
have quickly reflected the movement. The 
classic and Gothic styles in their various 
forms and orders have been revived, 
adapted to modern construction and per- 
haps used more successfully than ever. Re- 
cently there have arisen prophets who pre- 
dict and preach the coming of a new style 
BLAKE MEMORIAL CHAPEL. HARMONY GROVE CEMETERY, SALEM, MASS. 
A good example of Gothic architecture and grouping of cemetery buildings; E. M. 
A. Machado, arch. 
