A Plea for Architectural Design in Landscape 
a charming little bit of green with a nice old- 
fashioned garden. Here is an old porch and 
doorway with fan top and some interesting 
side lights. 'Phis is the Samuel Whitte- 
more house, built in 1760, and Mr. Chandler 
makes a note of it in his diary under date, 
June t 6th, 1760: “Abraham Sawyer’s house 
raised in forenoon. Mr. Whittemore’s 
house raised in the afternoon.” It was built 
by the grandfather of the people now living 
in it, and has always remained in the family 
and is filled with interesting heirlooms care¬ 
fully preserved through all these years. The 
original owner graduated from Harvard 
College, settled here, and taught the first 
public school in town. Originally the house 
had a gambrel roof, but about ninety years 
ago it was changed, another storey added and 
roofed with a pitch roof as it now stands, so 
that it is all in perfect keeping both inside 
and out. 
Nearly all these houses had at one time 
extensive gardens and grounds terraced in 
many cases to Main, or Front Street as it was 
then called. How attractive they must have 
been and how dignified, with their lawns and 
gardens, where now are crowded in a lot of 
small houses. 
The Garden of the Palais Royal in Paris 
A PLEA FOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 
IN LANDSCAPE 
Bv THOMAS HASTINGS 
U NTIL recent times it never occurred to 
a man to call himself a landscape archi¬ 
tect. Designing the surroundings of build¬ 
ings had been either an architectural problem 
or an engineering one, and there has seemed 
to be little room for anybody between the 
two. To so study grades and landscape con¬ 
ditions as to make a drive from one country 
town to another economical in construction, 
and to look well in the landscape and be of 
service when once built, is a purely practical 
question and one for the engineer. But 
when it becomes a question of making a 
building look well as related to the surround¬ 
ing landscape, it should be the architect 
who should design the surroundings of that 
building. 
The first of these problems, or the engi¬ 
neer’s landscape work, has frequently been 
called the “ natural.” The French amus¬ 
ingly call it le jardin a VAnglais. Unfor¬ 
tunately, as a general thing, such an avenue 
is not much more than the development of 
a cow path, or the shortest and most con¬ 
venient beaten track between two points. 
T he other kind of landscape has, perhaps 
unfortunately, been called the “ formal ” ; 
and the architect who is sufficiently inde- 
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