Llewellyn Park 
THE RESIDENCE OF MR. E. REMINGTON NICHOLS LLEWELLYN PARK 
Remodelled by Percy Griffin , Architect 
ebbed and flowed. The first settlers were, 
necessarily, men provided with a fair portion 
of the world’s goods, and, half a century ago, 
when money came more slowly, this meant 
that they were no longer in their first youth. 
Mr. Haskell himself was forty by the time 
the experiment was under way, and his asso¬ 
ciates were rather above than below that age. 
That generation has about passed away, and 
the next one is already enjoying its grand¬ 
children. Some few men and women have 
lived in the park for as long as thirty years, 
and there are even those dating back nearly 
another decade as residents. To-day, there 
is plenty of young life in Llewellyn Park as 
a community, a condition that hints at the 
possible utilization for houses at some future 
time, of the dozen or more sites that are 
still unoccupied. 
A spirit of progress is now rife, moreover, 
whose stirrings may not subside before ma¬ 
terial changes result. It is even possible 
that decision may be forced upon a rather 
serious question. The fact is that the reve¬ 
nue of four thousand dollars is insufficient to 
maintain the eleven miles of park roads and 
the lawns and woods of the Ramble as they 
should be kept up, in addition to the ex¬ 
pense of a superintendent, gardeners and 
other workmen. Grades are steep enough, 
on some of the roads, to demand the fre¬ 
quent repairing of damage from erosion. 
The roads are wide, the established minimum 
of sixteen feet often giving way to a breadth 
of twenty or twenty-five feet. They are 
macadamized and kept in order, but at con¬ 
siderable cost, even with the store of trap 
rock available in the mountain itself, one 
former source of supply, known as Nevin’s 
quarry, being within the very limits of the 
park. The care of trees and grass in the 
Ramble is also expensive, and it can be car¬ 
ried only to a limited extent. The revenue 
is not enough to furnish money for lighting 
the roads, and so the several property own¬ 
ers take care of this task individually, each 
being responsible for the drives touching his 
estate. Lamps cost eleven dollars a year 
