Llewellyn Park 
THE CHIEF ENTRANCE TO THE PARK 
adjoining territory, there was before long an 
area of four hundred acres under control. 
The owners handed together, with Mr. 
Haskell’s guidance, and placed their prop¬ 
erty under what was called the “ Park Cove¬ 
nant.” As new buyers came tor contiguous 
land, the original owners, through agreement 
with Mr. Haskell, agreed to sell only subject 
to the park or community restrictions. Thus 
the settlement continued to grow; and by the 
same process of accretion it is still slowly gain¬ 
ing in size, though certain property once gov¬ 
erned by the park covenant has since re¬ 
lapsed into independence. Its present ex¬ 
treme boundaries are Valley Road on the 
east, Mt. Pleasant Avenue on the south, 
Prospect Avenue on the west, and Eagle 
Rock Road on the north. Not all the ter¬ 
ritory within these limits belongs to Llewel¬ 
lyn Park, but the reservation has large front¬ 
ages on each of the four highways. 
Though landscape gardening was not 
within Haskell’s purpose, he set apart as 
the nucleus for communal life a fifty-acre 
strip of land, of varying width, called “ The 
Ramble.” This included the main entrance 
from Valley Road, and it followed the natural 
grade of a stream up the mountainside, wid¬ 
EROM VALLEY ROAD 
ening out near the top to embrace a wooded 
space some five hundred feet across and twelve 
hundred feet long, encircled later by road¬ 
ways. The average width of this park strip 
he made about three hundred feet, and its 
length more than a mile. As the map shows, 
it now embraces two parallel roadways up the 
mountain, with a ravine between them. 
From the large wooded space above men¬ 
tioned, a steep incline leads to the summit, 
and the park strip was carried up the slope, 
with a narrow extension each way along the 
crest, stretching perhaps half a mile. Two 
transverse arms, reaching out at either side 
of the large end of the Ramble, provided for 
cross roads as far as the land under the park 
covenant then spread. 
The park is an example of the beauty that 
comes from practical fitness to given condi¬ 
tions,rather than from adherence to any formal 
scheme. The roads curve through the woods 
so as to provide as direct and serviceable lines 
of travel as possible by grades within the 
power of ordinary horse-flesh. Vistas, for 
their own sake, are neither sought nor ob¬ 
tained ; views are merely incidental. The 
underbrush, in parts of the Ramble, has 
been left in its primitive tangle, and the 
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