Landscape plan with orchard, play court and locust allee – Antique Wall Art
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Landscape plan with orchard, play court and locust allee
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A landscape plan that combines an orchard, a play court, and a locust allee shows a library grounds designed as more than a building set back from the street. Plans like this were common when libraries were increasingly expected to serve families and schoolchildren, so open play space and shaded walks were placed alongside the building. Black locust was a popular walkway and street tree in American planting schemes because it grew quickly and tolerated dry soil, and a row of them would have given the approach a formal, orderly look. The plan is worth studying for how it treats the orchard and play court as working parts of the site rather than decoration.
| Original scan | 4,845 × 5,315 px · prints to 16 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15492_LandscapeplanfortheMillerhouse |
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