The Register Of The Malden Historical Society Malden Massachusetts 1910 1920 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Register of the Malden Historical Society, Malden, Massachusetts: Number 1, 1910-1911 Should not be determined until that of the site had been settled; it was desired to make the design appropriate to the location. Prof. Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect, was engaged to advise the commissioners regard ing the site. A_fter careful consideration - having found no favorable site in the center of rialden as desired, that on the High School grounds proving unsuitable - he recommended one of two locations: Bell Rock Park or a site overlooking the playground called Coytemore Lea the latter conditional upon the erection of the proposed new armory at that place, the monument to stand on a terrace in front. Popular sentiment preferred Bell Rock. 50 the City Council appropriated the money necessary for the purchase of additional land required by the Park Commis sion to complete the park and make it worthy of the pur pose. This done, the site at Bell Rock was selected and the Park Commission entered into cordial cooperation with the Monument Commission. Messrs. Olmsted Brothers were commissioned to design the park in harmony with the scheme for the monument. A limited competition between the two Boston sculptors, Bela L. Pratt and Cyrus E. Dal lin, had resulted in the choice of the design submitted by the former, and the problem of unifying the plan for the park and the design for the monument was studied jointly by the landscape architects and the sculptor. It being a locality of exceptional historic interest the landscape archi teets recommended that the monument be made a feature in a general treatment whereby the site should be developed to commemorate appropriately historic and patriotic events and services. This motive had been suggested by the Circumstance that the site was already occupied by a tablet placed in honor of the men of Malden who had served in the War of the Revolution. The recommendation was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.