Charles Eliot, landscape architect - a lover of nature and of his kind who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good -Charles William Eliot (1902) (14781877634)

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Title: Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good /Charles William Eliot
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape gardening
Publisher: Boston :Houghton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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ge work carried on in this manner. A Town-site on Salt Lake, Utah. — On the 23d ofJuly, 1890, Mr. Charles Francis Adams, President of theUnion Pacific Railroad, asked Charles to go to Utah with himto advise the railroad company about a town site and hotel atGarfield beach on Salt Lake. The job had been offered toMr. Olmsted, and declined on account of other engagements ;but Mr. Olmsted advised Charles to accept it. The expedi-tion was entirely congenial, and the work to be done lookedattractive; so Charles postponed his appointments in Boston,notified his wife at New Hartford and his nearest relatives,and on the 24th started in pursuit of Mr. Adams, who hadalready left Boston. On the 30th he solved to his satisfactionthe problem presented to him, gave two days more to thestudy of its details, and on the morning of August 2d startedfor home. The engineers of the railroad made the surveysrequired by Charless preliminary design, and their drawingsreached him in the middle of September.
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MR. HENRY S. HUNNEWELLS GARDEN-PLAN ^t. 31) A TOWN-SITE DESIGN ON SALT LAKE 287 1 November, 1890.C. F. Adams, Esq., President Union Pacific Railroad Co. Sir, — I beg leave to report upon the plan for the develop-ment of your Companys property at Garfield, Utah, devisedby me at your request, during the past summer. A few words will describe the general situation. The Great Salt Lake extends about ninety miles in a north-west and southeast direction. At right angles to this line ofits greatest length, the southern shore of the lake stretchesnortheast and southwest for thirty miles, having at eitherextremity a wide and very low-shored bay, but in the middleof its length a distinctly bold, rocky, and projecting swell ofcoast, immediately behind which rises the exceedingly steepOquirrh Mountain. The total length of this bold and hand-some portion of the southern shore is about three miles ; andall this stretch of shore, with what inhabitable land lies backof it and much of the mountain s