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Landscape Characteristics <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Hyde <strong>Park</strong> Estate Landscape<br />

Feature Pre-1895 1895-1910 1910-1939 Existing Comment<br />

Land-Use/Spatial Organization<br />

<strong>Park</strong> vs. Farm organization is a<br />

<strong>Park</strong> X X X X<br />

primary landscape characteristic<br />

Farm X X X L Partitioned by Van Alen 1939<br />

Mansion Site X X X X First established 1799<br />

X M M M On site 1875, modified 1895-<br />

Formal Garden<br />

1938<br />

- X X M Acquired 1905, redesigned<br />

Sexton Tract/Bard Rock Area<br />

1905 through "Mission 66"<br />

Views<br />

X X X X Primary landscape<br />

Views West<br />

characteristic.<br />

Vegetation<br />

Collection <strong>of</strong> Specimen Trees X X X X<br />

Mansion Foundation Plantings - - X L Installed 1923, Removed 1977<br />

Circulation<br />

Dates to Bard period, 1764-<br />

Bard Rock Road X X X X<br />

1821<br />

Coach House Road - X X X Constructed 1897<br />

Exit Road to Dock Street X M M M Original to Parmentier's layout<br />

Italian Garden Paths X M M M Current layout dates to 1910<br />

Main Entrance Road X M M M Pre-dates Vanderbilt<br />

Vanderbilt modification to Main<br />

Great Circle - - X X<br />

Entrance Road, created in 1910<br />

<strong>Service</strong> Road Along River - X X X Post 1905<br />

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