House Garden 
First Floor PLANS OF RESIDENCE OF RALPH ROBINSON, ESQ. Second Floor 
Designed by Messrs. Wyatt & Nolting 
exerted a most appreciable influence upon the 
growth of the suburban community of which 
it constituted so unique an adjunct. Eventu¬ 
ally the club house, together with twenty 
acres of land, was sold outright to the club, 
and the latter organization leased in addition 
one hundred and five acres for use as a golf 
course. The membership of the club is not, 
of course, restricted to residents of Roland 
Park, but includes many well known Balti¬ 
moreans. There is noticeable however, a 
decided tendency on the part of persons, 
who become deeply engrossed in golf or other 
club diversions, to remove permanently to 
Roland Park in order to turn to pleasurable 
account every spare moment of their time. 
Aside from the tract solci to the country 
club, the entire one hundred and fifty acres 
of the Roland Park territory, which have 
thus far been disposed of, have been sold to 
individuals for residential sites. At the out¬ 
set, it was the supposition that lots with a 
frontage of fifty feet, and running back a 
depth of from one hundred and sixty-five 
to one hundred and ninety feet, would meet 
the requirements of most of the household¬ 
ers who would seek homes in the park; but 
it was speedily discovered that in most cases 
a frontage of seventy-five feet was desired, 
and a majority of the lots have the latter 
width, with a depth as above given. Per¬ 
haps no better evidence could be given of 
the character of the improvements made by 
the property holders than is found in the 
fact that the two hundred and twenty-five 
houses which have been erected represent, 
with the land they occupy, an outlay of 
approximately two million dollars. Despite 
the select character ot the residents and the 
uniformly creditable character of the houses, 
there has been no effort to exclude from the 
community persons of moderate means. On 
the other hand, the development company 
has sought to aid the homeseeker of modest 
resources. 
In pursuit of this policy the company has 
had erected, primarily upon its own responsi¬ 
bility and under the supervision of its own 
officials, more than two-thirds of all the 
dwellings in the park. This move involved 
an aggregate expenditure of nearly eight 
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. A num¬ 
ber of these cottages were constructed as an 
investment; but in a majority of cases, the 
residences were built to meet the require¬ 
ments of assured purchasers. In the admin¬ 
istration of affairs at Roland Park, the same 
general business policy has obtained without 
variation since the inception of the project. 
No options or preferences have been given 
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