House & Garden 
First Floor 
PLANS OF RESIDENCE OF W. L. MARBURY, ESQ. 
Designed by Messrs. W^att and Nd/ting 
Second Floor 
financed largely by English capital purchased, 
at a cost of upward of half a million dollars, 
two tracts of land aggregating about five hun¬ 
dred and fifty acres. The pioneers in the 
movement were fortunate and far-sighted 
enough to secure land a considerable portion 
ot which was rather heavily wooded. The 
topography of the park is particularly attrac¬ 
tive, the location being high and the land 
gently rolling, while the soil is coarse and 
gravelly with some clay, but for the most 
part it is a rocky formation which contributes 
to the stability of many admirable attainments 
in landscape architecture. 
The system of improvements carried out 
at Roland Park was most extensive, and it 
affords a valuable criterion of the possibilities 
and necessities in the evolution of such a 
community. At the outset nearly one-fourth 
of the original area of the park was sacrificed 
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THE RESIDENCE OF MRS. ELEANOR BRANNAN 
Designed by Messrs. IVyatt tit No/ting 
