Roland Park , near Baltimore 
MAP OF “ PLAT NUMBER ONE ” 
The Tract East of Roland Avenue 
RESIDENCE OF JOHN M. PALMER, ESQ. 
Designed by Messrs. Wyatt & Nd/ting 
poration which has fostered its development. 
I ndeed, stipulations enforcing such protection 
are embodied in every deed for land within 
the confines of the tract. Roland Park is 
situated only four miles from the business 
center of Baltimore,—the distance being 
covered by electric car in thirty minutes,— 
and one of the secrets of its rapid growth 
supply and perfect sewerage, 
to say nothing of mail, tele¬ 
phone and other communica¬ 
tive facilities that are fully the 
equal of those possessed by 
any of his city cousins. 
The conditions which have 
been portrayed are not merely 
those of a single ideal com¬ 
munity, but are existent in 
the semi-rural abiding places 
that hedge about our leading 
American cities. Thoroughly 
representative of the possi- .. 
bilities of twentieth century 
achievement in this fruitful 
field is the locality known as 
Roland Park, situated at the 
northern limits of the city of 
Baltimore and forming in many respects a 
well-nigh ideal residential suburb. Although 
situated directly in the line of the most rapid 
growth of the Monumental City, Roland Park 
is, nevertheless, protected from the encroach¬ 
ments of business and manufacturing and 
the inroads of other unwelcome interests by 
means of rigid restrictions imposed by the cor- 
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MAP OF “ PLAT NUMBER TWO 
The Neiu Tract West of Roland Avenue 
is doubtless found in the fact that it offers 
to dwellers in houses of the stereotyped 
pattern, built in rows, the boon of detached 
houses without any sacrifice of proximity to 
places of business and amusement. 
The history of Roland Park dates from 
the autumn of 1891, when a company organ¬ 
ized with a capital of one million dollars and 
