The Greeley tribune., 1908-08-05
ARTIST BLAKE SAYS GREELEY
CAN EASILY HAVE THIS
SUGGESTS PROPER SYS1u
Outline of Boulevard Plan For Gea-
efal Civic Beauty Scheme
Opportunities Arc At
Hand Ready to Be
Taken Up


tiful Greeley. outlined by c. B.
Blake, the landscape artist, who
went over the city Thursday
morning with party of Greeley
men was something like this:
Start boulevard at Island Grove
park. Maze this boulevard just -
wide as 1t can be made. II the
ground could have been secured be-
fore homes were built along Four
teenth avenue, the boulevard should
have been made $50 feet wide, with
strip of parking. trees and shrub
berry down the center. nice curbinE
at the edge of the street. Garry thiD
scheme south on Fourteenth avenue
to about where this intersects the
gulch that comes down from in the
vicinity of the distributing reservoir
of the city water works. From .
point about the corner OF Fourteenth
avenue and Thirteenth street the
boulevard should follow the course
of the gulch. swinging gracefully
with the contour of the land. This
would admit of a great deal of i'm
provement in the way of grassy
slopes, shrubs and trees. Always
adhere close to nature and be sure
there ia a reason for everything that
Is done.
At a point a few hundred yards
. above where the lake is at present
being established by the colony of
, Normal school instructors who hays
bought tract of land. much lar
10 En oh
AS different start has already
been made. the dam of the present
lake should be raised Is or 20 feet
higher. and some of the bank of
the south end of the lake should be
removed to make a larger basin.
All the available land in that gulch
in the vicinity of the lake should be
bought by the city for park pur-
poses. This would include all of the
land up to the city reservoir.
This land could be bought by the
city right now, and the park estao-
lshed, and what land was not need
ed for park could be sold. and likely
at price that would pay for all OF
it. Owners of property along the
gulch should be enlisted to improve
their property to conform to the
general beauty scheme of the re-
gion.
The drive should then continue
on an easy grade up the gulch and
around the city reservoir, coming up
on top of the divide at that point.
From there it should swing back
along the county road to the corner
of the country club grounds. through
part of these and around the pro-
posed lake. to the park. where the
old standpipe formerly stood
The city is now figuring >on i'm
proving this half block of ground.
From this point the country can be
seen for distance of nearly 20
miles in every direction. and splen-
did view of the mountains can be
had.
Here MIR. Blake would plant the
proper trees and shrubbery, and
have plenty of seats under the trees,
so that people could come here and
rest and enjoy the magnificent view.
From this park there would real
ly be two branches of the drive, one
going down Tenth avenue and
through the Normal campus, down
Ninth avenue to No. ditch.
The other branch of the system
would go east on Twentieth street to
the city ditch at about what would
be Fifth avenue. Then follow the
QlIcn Dauk 10 WutIt II Wouiu -iSSs
branch No. |, on Ninth avenue.
No. 3. ditch. according to Mr..
Blake offers an opportunity tsat
many cities would pay thousands OF
dollars to possess. Here he pro-
poses to secure Is or more feet on
each side of the ditch, and put in
drive on one or both sides and foot
path for pedestrians. There is o1-
portunity for one of the choicest
drives in any city in the country
along a couple of, miles of>this ditch.
This drive could come back TO the
corner of Fourteenth avenue and
Thirteenth street, and end there X.
the wide boulevard, or it could BE-
carried on farther northwest. and
swung back to Fourteenth avenue on
Seventh, Eighth or Ninth street.
This in a general way only. IL
the outline of the system of boule-
wards or drives that will eventually
be built here