House C? Garden 
EUCLID AVENUE CIRCLE 
CLEVELAND 
dictated, the avoidance ot any lofty fountain 
structure, the water itself, framed by green 
grass, being sufficiently effective. The placing 
of the new monument to De Peyster laid 
further stress upon the axis, which is proper, 
but in the opinion of the writer, the little 
park would be much more appreciated by 
persons in the street if the level of the green 
were lowered enough to bring the surface of 
the water more easily within the vision. The 
main streams of traffic flow along pavements 
separated from the enclosure by nearly the 
width of an ordinary street, and at present, 
the water is seen so obliquely that it counts 
for little. By making the green a sunken 
garden, the water would be agreeably con¬ 
spicuous and the sloping edges of grass 
would also attract the eye. Possibly the 
trees might prove an obstacle to the scheme, 
but if not, it might result in raising the 
decorative power of this verdant spot. The 
opposite neighbors of this miniature park 
are the Washington Building (at the left in 
the photograph) and the Bowling Green 
Building; the new Custom House will look 
over it up Broadway and the Produce Ex¬ 
change is on the east side of it, besides other 
lofty structures. 
The city of Cleveland contains a capital 
example of the misuse ot a central plot at the 
focus of several roadways. Euclid Avenue 
Circle, in a district noted for its fine resi¬ 
dences, lies between Rockefeller Park 
(through which, in the illustration, a trolley 
car is heading south) and Wade Park, from 
which the photograph was taken. Between 
the parks, to the eastward, are the Western 
Reserve College grounds. Euclid Avenue 
enters this space at the extreme left and 
leaves it at the right. Adelbert College is in 
the foreground, and Case School is beyond. 
The three pairs of street-railway tracks, and 
the lines of trolley and telegraph poles, go 
far toward ruining a piece of ground that in 
spite of the prevailing flatness of the land¬ 
scape, is absolutely commanding. Better a 
steel and copper girdle around the outside of 
the driveway space than through the center 
of this green plot. Here there might be 
erected a monumental fountain, as large as 
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