NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
AND REMINDER 
Vol. XIV Manchester, Mass., Friday, September 1, 1916 No. 35 
Beautiful Italian Garden at Dawson Hall 
One of Show Places 
of the North Shore 
LILLIAN McCANN 
“Whosoever enters here let him beware, for 
he shall nevermore escape nor be free of my 
spell.” 
HIS solemn warning is inscribed upon the brick and 
stone-trimmed entrance of the beautiful Italian garden 
at Dawson Hall, the Beverly Cove home of Mrs. Robert 
D. Evans of Boston. 
Built upon the site of the house formerly occupied by 
ex-Pres. Taft and 
family before its 
removal to Marble- 
head shores, this 
garden is conceded 
by all garden lov- 
ers to rank first in 
beauty and expend- 
iture of artistic 
effort upon the 
Shore. It was built 
five years ago by 
Francis R. Allen 
of Boston. 
At the main en- 
trance to. the gar- 
den are white mar- 
ble statues, two on 
either side, set in 
a hedge of box. In- 
side are two clus- 
ters of ‘green gar- 
dens,” on either 
side the broad 
brick walk. Pass- 
ing through these 
beds of various 
pines to the steps guarded by the white lions the site of 
the lower garden level is spread out before the view in 
one of the richest scenes imaginable. This quardrangle 
is about 40 feet wide and half again as long. In it are 
the four large groups of flowers of many varieties. On 
the inner side of this sunken portion is an addition of a 
semi-circular portion filled with roses, and with a marble 
peristyle covered with roses which also run out over the 
wall enclosing the 
garden. At this 
part of the wall is 
the handsone wall- 
fountain, best seen 
from the outside of 
the garden. 
Looking across 
the rose garden, 
and past the lotus 
fountain centering 
the entire garden, 
a green space is 
seen, occupied by 
a sun-dial and a 
large bronze statue, 
the “Falconer.” 
The daring hunter 
and falcon are 
shaded by two tall, 
graceful elms. 
The whole gar- 
den seems to be set 
off by opposites, 
each section having 
re HN tes, O29 TD Oia sponding 
feature opposite it, 
