Roland Park , near Baltimore 
THE RESIDENCE OF RALPH ROBINSON, ESQ. 
to roadways and lanes and some idea of the 
magnitude of this portion of the work may 
be gained from the fact that over $76,000 
was expended in grading and half as much 
again in providing granolithic sidewalks, 
stone gutters and underdrains. However, 
every effort was made to afford compensation 
for the slight impairment of the natural 
beauty of the place necessitated by these 
operations, and the development company 
expended large sums in planting thousands 
of trees and shrubs on the various roadways. 
The wisdom of this policy is now strikingly 
exemplified by the appearance of the princi¬ 
pal thoroughfare known as Roland Avenue. 
In the center of this highway are located the 
double tracks of the electric railway system, 
but the steel tracks have been so enclosed 
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between privet hedges that the avenue has 
been robbed of little of its symmetry and 
beauty. 
The promoters of Roland Park appreciated 
the importance of the social phase of any 
newly-founded high-class community of this 
kind and they sought its development by 
means of a plan which, in one form or 
another, has been tried elsewhere in America, 
but assuredly never more successfully than 
here. Broadly speaking the prime movers in 
the park project fostered the formation of the 
Baltimore Country Club and the inauguration 
of the varied activities which now make it a 
social center. The development company, 
acting virtually upon its own responsibility, 
built at a cost of $40,000 a thoroughly artis¬ 
tic country club house; and this speedily 
