Community Life at Rochelle Park 
THE HOUSE OF ERNEST ALBERT, ESQ. 
Winyah Avenue, Beaufort Place and Or¬ 
chard Place are short straight streets serving 
the northwest corner of the property. The 
most charming feature of the plan is the Ser¬ 
pentine, which was not at first carried out, 
hut which now adds just the desired factor 
of irregularity. The Serpentine, in its relation 
to the Boulevard, is not unlike Pearl Street, 
New York, in its double intersection of Broad¬ 
way. Leaving the Boulevard near the Lawn, 
on the north, it sweeps by a series of reversed 
curves up to the edge of the property and 
back again to the main axis, which it crosses, 
continuing as far as Manhattan Avenue. 
Actually the upper half of the Serpentine is 
made necessary only by three or four lots 
otherwise inaccessible, close to the north bor¬ 
der. The Serpentine’s lower half gives their 
only outlet to just three lots, in the center of 
the large triangle bounded by the Boulevard, 
the Court and Manhattan Avenue. This 
may seem on paper an expensive way to serve 
a small amount of property, but even were 
it not absolutely essential, the Serpentine 
would be really worth while in a park of this 
standard. As an element of the design, it is 
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PLANS OF HOUSE OF ERNEST ALBERT, ESQ. 
Designed by Wilson Eyre 
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