A RESTAURANT ON THE BORDERS OF A LAKE 
Winning Design by F. C. Hirons -Text by Donn Barber 
THE PARTS PRIZE OFFERED BY J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ESQ. 
Programme by M. Louis Bernier 
establisliment, placed on the hillside of a 
^ rolling country, should have its principal 
entrance on a road following the contour of the lake 
and another entrance on a smaller road situated 
The about sixty-five feet above the former one. 
Problem Ramps and staircases and paths shoidd 
make easy access for carriages and people on foot 
to the different terraces, on which should be placed 
the main building, its pavilions, the various games, 
the kiosques, the bosquets, etc. 
The principal building should contain on the 
ground floor a great dining-room and several other 
rooms and drawing-rooms, besides the necessary 
vestibules, etc. On the first floor, which should be 
in direct communication with the roof terrace, there 
will be private dining-rooms. On each floor the 
necessary dependencies, service, toilet rooms, etc. 
A grand staircase, elevators, service elevators and 
stairs, and so on. The kitchen and other quarters 
of the service should be in a sub-basement situated 
on a special court. 
In the garden there should be a summer cafe with 
its dependencies and kiosques for music, several 
tennis courts, croquet lawns and space for all out¬ 
door games. Bosquets shall be arranged near the 
principal building containing the restaurant, and 
also in other parts of the grounds. 
The service buildings near the upper road shall 
consist of stables, sheds for carriages, garage for 
automobiles, large service court and a bar for the 
coachmen and servants. There should also be 
lodgings for the Director and the various employees. 
The public will be able to enter the establishment 
either from the main roadway or from the smaller 
road. The distance between the principal road and 
the inner road is three thousand (3000J feet. The 
width is undetermined. 
For the sketches there is required a block plan at 
inch scale of the restaurant and all the various 
dependencies, etc. mentioned: also a plan and sec¬ 
tion of the restaurant and its immediate dependencies 
at -sV inch and its fa9ade at jV inch. 
For the rendu there is required a plan at A 
inch scale showing the restaurant and all the 
various dependencies, without, however, showing 
the general layout of the grounds beyond them. 
Also two plans and a section of the restaurant and 
its immediate dependencies at i inch scale and an 
elevation at f inch. By a subsecjuent letter the 
requirements of the rendu were changed to the 
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