The Treatment of City Squares 
WASHINGTON PLACE, From the North 
BALTIMORE 
should be consistent and com¬ 
plete. If it safeguards the 
architecture, reserves precious 
space tor greensward and builds 
a stone coping all around this, 
so that the grass, once planted, 
may be preserved, and then 
permits incongruously the 
erection of hideous poles, it 
makes, for all its straining, a 
quite pathetic failure. In fact, 
how often one has to see an 
ugly telegraph pole rising from 
the center of a mid-street bed of 
gorgeous flowers ! The thing 
would be ridiculous if it were 
not so sad. Then it has been 
seen that the open space affords 
an opportunity to bring into 
the city these decorative and 
precious elements: grass, 
flowers, water and trees, and 
BALTIMORE 
WASHINGTON PLACE, From the Monument 
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