OLMSTED BROTHERS.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, BROOKLINE, MASS.

JOHN CHARLES OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, JR.

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
JAMES FREDERICK DAWSON, PERCIVAL GALLAGHER.

8th May, 1908.

Mr. G. D. Seymour,

868 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Sir:-

We are sending you by mail today, under separate cover, plan showing preliminary recommendations and we also herewith enclose notes to accompany said plan.

If you need further copies we can prepare them for you but we have not done so as this is as yet incomplete and intended only as an advanced copy.

(Enclosures)

LIST OF PROPOSED ADDITIONS

TO THE NEW HAVEN PARK SYSTEM.

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To accompany plan No. 14, Olmsted Brothers, 8th May, 1908.

1. Near Kimberly Avenue and the Boulevard, a tract of marsh land and other unoccupied property extending from the estuary of West River across the Boulevard into the tract between Kimberly and Greenwich Avenue and connecting with Second Street opposite the schoolhouse on the corner of Second Street and Kimberly Avenue. This seems a good opportunity for getting playground space for this locality.

2. A tract along the West River between the Congress Avenue Bridge and the Oak Street Bridge, consisting mostly of marsh land, bounded on the east by the Boulevard and on the west by a proposed boundary street following the top of the bank where the upland descends into the marsh.

2a. A portion of the above tract extending westward along Oak Street into a side valley. This is not essential but is desirable. It seems to be desirable to secure a boundary along a line that will provide for a fairly direct road from the Congress Avenue Bridge across the West River to the corner of Forest and Oak Street and to control the steep slopes overlooking the valley.

3. A tract along the West River between the Oak Street Bridge and the Derby Avenue Bridge, bounded on the east by the Boulevard and on the west by the St. Lawrence Cemetery and the Yale Field. To include also a portion of Yale Field if that should ever be available.

4. A tract along the West River between the Derby Avenue Bridge and the Chapel Street Bridge, bounded on the east by the Boulevard and on the west by the proposed Yale Avenue.