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well-built suburban homes. The lots were relatively modest in size and irregular in shape. They were not intended to be estates for the rich but sites large enough for comfortable middle-class homes, each planned to take advantage of the natural setting. The narrow, meandering roads were laid out to follow the contours of the land, and existing trees were preserved whenever possible.
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to examine the prospects of a former farm of approximately 86 acres (350,000 m) near the railroad station. He appreciated the possibilities of the property and its convenient location and purchased the entire property the following year. He envisioned a planned community of well-designed and
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Lawrence's business plan was designed to attract a friendly, homogenous population of upper-middle-class residents - professionals, business managers, and the like. The development proved particularly attractive to established artists who were successful commercial painters, illustrators, and
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Lawrence had five children: Alice (1868-1869), Louise Lawrence Meigs (1870-1965), Arthur W. Lawrence (1875-1937), Anna Lawrence Bisland (1873-1950), and Dudley B. Lawrence (1880-1970). Anna and her husband, Pressley Bisland, were the foster parents of poet
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The development soon proved to be a success, and within a couple of decades most of the original property was developed and
Lawrence bought more land to extend its boundaries. The newer sections were designed primarily in the
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Lawrence used his wealth to pursue a wide variety of entrepreneurial and philanthropic enthusiasms. One of these was the development of real estate. In 1889, at the suggestion of his brother-in-law, he came out on the
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Bisland's French governess. The Lawrence children and grandchildren continued to run their father's real estate business until 1990 when it was acquired by another local family.
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combined independent research projects, individually supervised by the teaching faculty, and seminars with low student-to-faculty ratio – a pattern it retains, despite its cost, to the present.
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