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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ure drive circling the foot of the hills.To develop this driveway properly a sidewalk should be laid out on the townside of the drive and all building should be confined to this side of the walk.This walk should be at least six feet wide and the circuit drive itself should bea 24-foot roadway of concrete or macadam. From the junction of the Jerome and Cottonwood highways south of thetown, the road is to be carried across the narrow valley west of the south endof Sixth Street over a bridge. This approach is suggested to eliminate thedangerous and wasteful horseshoe curve by which this highway now enters thetown following the contours of this gully. The gully west of the proposedbridge should be partially filled and utilized as a ball field and wading pool.The gully along the north side of Main Street between the Improvement build-ing and the Public Square should be graded to form a promenade for pedestriansonly. This would serve the utilitarian purpose of providing a safe foot passage.
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DORMITORY FOR SOUTH END OF FIFTH STREET, CL.\RKDALE, ARIZONAHerding & Boyd, Architects free from trafiic interference, west of the Public Square, and would also removethe objectionable feature of the sharp fill on the north side of Main Street at thispoint, referred to in the preceding section. Both borders of this parkwayshould be lined with cottonwood trees to form a pleasing landscape border bothto relieve the unbroken stretch of Main Street and to provide shade and beautyto the parkway or promenade. The slope of the ground between the promen-ade and the playgrounds and clubhouse should be terraced and rectified. Atten-tion should be paid to the provision of irrigation for the greenery along thepromenade. The detailed plan and birdseye view further illustrate the developmentwhich is proposed to link together the upper and lower town. The plateaunortheast of the Ninth Street plaza should be laid out as an athletic field, thecenter of which should be the axis of the arcade of the

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