TOPIARIAN MEMBERS STUDY ARCHITECTURE IN BERSHIRES

Forty-one members of the Topiarian Club of the School of Landscape Architecture returned last night from a two days trip into the Berkshire Mountains, under the supervision of Professor J. S. Sturgis and Professor H. V. Hubbard. The purpose of the expedition was to provide opportunities for observation of problems of design, construction and planting on private or public grounds, and also for the study of natural scenery.

The party left Cambridge early Tuesday morning, making the first stop at Springfield, where the finest group of municipal buildings in the country is situated. Proceeding to Barrington, Vt., the party spent some time studying Mrs. William H. Walker's estate with its elaborate grounds and mansion in the Elizabethan style. From there the school went to stock bridge, Mass, where eight more estates were studied and sketched.

See Estates in Stockbridge

Tuesday night was spent at the "Oaklawn House" of Mr. E. G. Laird in Stockbridge. Yesterday morning the group resumed their tour, and visited eight more estates, of which three were situated on the shore of Lake Mahkeenac, Lenox. One of these, owned by Mrs. Carlos de Heredie, is of the Italian Renaissance style, constructed with colored brick and rarified ironwork. Another, that of Mrs. Albert R. Shattuck, was planned by Mrs. Edith Wharton, a well-known amateur landscape architect, Mr. Harris Fahnestock's estate in Lenox, the last to be observed, was studied chiefly because of its many gardens and fountains.