The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-11-22

friends. X.
Beautiful Roland Park--Remarkable
Development in the Present Year.-The
Roland Park Company is now busily engaged
in developing what is known as "Plat Two
on the western side of Roland avenue, and ex-
perts from New York and Boston have been
called in to introduce all the newest and best
ideas in suburban development, says the Bal
timore NelcS.
On either side of Goodwood road, which is
parallel to Roland avenue and one block west
of it. a new and highly ornamental system of
grading and terraces, designed by Mr. Charles
A. Platt of New York, is now we'll under way.
The terraces rise from stone retaining walls
and are extraordinarily graceful The shrub
berry is being put in place now, and each plant
is being set according to the blueprint designs
made up by the architect The shrubbery will
be of the rarest and most beautiful description,
and 10 of the largest nurseries in this country
were drawn upon before the collection was
complete. On the blue prints the place for
each plant is carefully marked, and the result,
it is said, will be the finest piece of landscape
gardening near Baltimore.
Both sides of the block on Goodwood road
are being terraced, and the Company will erect
three houses as starter-two on one side of
the road and one on the other. Room will be
left for nine more houses to be erected accord
ing to the designs of the purchasers.
"Plat 81 is being developed according to the
plans of Olmsted Brothers, of Brookline,
Mass, firm of architects with great expert
ence in suburban development. Mr.. Platt
will develop the 20 acres recently bought by
the Roland Park Company from Mr. Charles
O'Donnell Lee adjoining their present prop
erty on the north and west. The Company
now owns 500 acres of land. Out of this
comes, of course the property now used as
golf links by the Baltimore Country Club.
There are now ITO acres under Development
and the work of extending will be continued
year by year. The balance of the property
however, will soon be in high state of de-
velopment. There are about 20 new houses
now under way in the Park and the summer
and fall have witnessed the completion of
about as many more Some of the latter are
among the handsomest structures in the Park
An especially fine group, all in white stucco,
has been erected recently near the intersection
of Ridgewood and Kenwood roads. 1t in
cludes the homes of Messrs A. G. Meyer,
William M. Ellicott, Robert B. Cole and Gin
ton Townsend. These houses ranged in cost
from S12, 900 to $50, 900, and make a very pic
turesque group.
A corner at which great improvements have
recently been made, and where others are still
under way. is where the cars turn into the
barn, at Upland road and Roland avenue.
The fine white stucco house of Mr. Charles
w. Slagle Jr., has been completed at cost
of $4,000, and is now occupied. Next to it
is the new Presbyterian Church. which will
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lite. Mr.. Ernest E. Price has bought the
two lots on the southeastern corner. and is
about to erect a house to cost SIS 900 there, and
Mr. Leonard Reeder has Just finished a house
on the southwestern corner which cost $40, 000
Many persons wondered what the architects
would do with the steep incline of the hill
southwark from the Club road. 1t has been
treated in the most graceful way winding
road and grading making one almost forget
that it was steep hill. Nesting at the bot
tom of the hill, entirely protected from the
cold north winds, but with delightful south
ern exposure, is an $500 cottage Just COM
pleted for Mr.. Herbert Russell Stubs. He is
the pioneer under the hill but his example is
being quickly followed by others who recog-
nized that he was wise in his choice of a lot.
Farther up the hill the houses command a
splendid view of the whole valley OF Jones'
falls. Here the foundations are in for a S15,-
600 house for Col. John G. Legg on Ridgewood
road near Kenwood. This road has a success
sion of handsome Colonial houses, which
have greater or less degree of similarity in
architecture.
Altogether the development of the suburb
during the last II months has been remark
able, and the new property seems to be capa-
BILE of the most picturesque handling
Real Estate Sales.-E. c. Hawkins auc-
tioneer, sold on the premises, on Saturday last,
under mortgage from William G. Palmer and
wife to George W. Carr farm of 81 acres,
with ordinary Improvements, situated near
Walkers Switch, in the 7th district purchased
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