PAMPHLET Ne». 4 
 
 FOREST HILLS 
 GARDENS 
 
 PRELIMINARY INFORMATION 
 FOR BUYERS 
 
 SAGE FOUNDATION HOMES 
 COMPANY 
 
 FOREST HILLS, BOROUGH OF QUEENS 
 V LONG ISLAND 
 
 NEW YORK CITY 
 
 NEW YORK OFFICE 47 WEST 34th STREET 
 
 APRIL, 1914 
 
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library 
 Gift of Seymour B. Durst Old York Library 
 
Forest Hills Gardens 
 
 Preliminary Information for Buyers 
 
 NOTICE 
 
 This pamphlet is issued by the Sage Foundation Homes Company 
 for the purpose of giving information to prospective purchasers of 
 lots in Forest Hills Gardens. Taken in connection with the Contracts 
 of Sale, it contains all the representations on its behalf which the 
 Company has authorized. Intending purchasers are notified that the 
 Company is not responsible for, and will not be bound by any other or 
 further representations which may be made by agents or others in 
 connection with the sale or other disposition of its property, unless 
 made in writing by a duly authorized officer of the Company. At the 
 same time the Company accepts full responsibility for all representa- 
 tions herein made. 
 
A Business Undertaking 
 
 The undertaking is primarily a business enterprise in which cer- 
 tain trust funds have been invested in the definite expectation of 
 securing' an adequate business profit, to be applied to the purposes of 
 the trust. The fact that those interested in this development hope, at 
 the same time, to demonstrate that it is possible to develop a more 
 attractive general plan and better types of houses than those 
 commonly found in commercial land developments, makes it, if any- 
 thing, more important to insure the financial success of the venture. 
 Owners of land elsewhere could not be expected to follow the example 
 of this Company unless it can show a profit satisfactory to the average 
 investor. 
 
 References 
 
 Before accepting the application of any person expressing a will- 
 ingness to buy or rent its property, the Company will require refer- 
 ences as to the character and business of the applicant. It is essential 
 to the commercial and social success of the undertaking that prospect- 
 ive buyers should not only be responsible and reliable but that they 
 should be congenial neighbors to other residents. The Company has 
 taken special pains to secure desirable purchasers and will select others 
 of the same kind by thorough investigation of the character and stand- 
 ing of each applicant, and will accept only persons who will in the 
 judgment of the Company, help it to maintain its standards and to 
 carry out its aims in creating a homogeneous and congenial community. 
 
 Location 
 
 Forest Hills Gardens is a suburban land development of the Sage 
 Foundation Homes Company, in the Borough of Queens on the newly 
 equipped electric line of the Long Island Railroad, nine miles from the 
 new Pennsylvania Station at Seventh Avenue and Thirty-third Street, 
 Manhattan. It is two miles west of Jamaica and adjoins Forest Park 
 — a large city park of greajL natural beauty, which provides a golf 
 course, and other opportunities for recreation. 
 
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The property consists of 204 acres of land, undulating, partly 
 wooded and well drained, on the northwesterly slope of the ridge or 
 backbone of Long Island, from 60 to 130 feet above mean high water. 
 The soil is a dry, sandy loam, free from rock strata. 
 
 At present thirty or more trains each way stop daily at Forest 
 Hills Gardens, connecting it with the Pennsylvania Station in Manhat- 
 tan. While, in point of frequency, this does not compare favorably 
 with the train service of many more fully developed suburban locali- 
 ties, nevertheless in all other respects the transportation is already ex- 
 ceptionally good. The appointed schedules are maintained with great 
 regularity; with negligible exceptions, the running time is from 13 to 
 15 minutes; the ride is an agreeable one, consisting of four minutes 
 through a cool, well-ventilated tunnel, and about ten minutes through 
 pleasant open country ; trains run at intervals through the night, 
 and the schedule is so arranged as to make it reasonably convenient 
 to return home after an evening in town. With the growth of popu- 
 lation at this station, the frequency of the train service will tend 
 constantly to increase. 
 
 The commutation rate is $6.50 a month ; 50 trip tickets cost $9.25, 
 round-trip tickets 45 cents. 
 
 The trolley line along the Hoffman Boulevard affords additional 
 transportation facilities to Manhattan and to Jamaica. Cars are oper- 
 ated under a ten minute headway and the fare is five cents. The 
 Manhattan terminus is at 59th Street and 2nd Ave. 
 
 An ungraded public school, which offers instruction from kinder- 
 garten to the grade known as 6 B, is centrally located in Forest Hills 
 Gardens, in a building of the portable type used by the Board of 
 Education in new localities in advance of the erection of permanent 
 buildings. Jamaica and Elmhurst, which are but a few minutes' ride 
 from Forest Hills, provide a High School and other grade schools 
 for the older children. It is naturally to be expected that, whenever 
 the growth of population warrants, there will be a public school directly 
 on the property. 
 
 Schools 
 
Churches 
 
 There is now located upon the property, in a building of the portable 
 type, a Union Congregational Church, which has been incorporated 
 under the name of "The Church in the Gardens." The Rev. Dr. 
 Robert J. Kent is the resident pastor. It is expected, whenever the 
 population and congregation warrant it, that a permanent edifice, in 
 harmony with the general character of the development, will be erected. 
 
 Episcopal services are at present held in one of the vacant stores 
 on the property. On the north side of the track, in Forest Hills, there 
 is a Union Church ; and Sunday services are held in temporary quar- 
 ters, for the Roman Catholics. 
 
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Landscape Design and Street 
 Improvements 
 
 Street Plan 
 
 In laying out the property, Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, the Land- 
 scape Architect, has aimed to secure the full benefit resulting from 
 three important principles in city planning. 
 
 One of these principles relates to the main thoroughfares, which 
 should be direct, ample and convenient. Two 8o-foot streets are 
 carried straight through the property, in accordance with the city's 
 tentative street plan covering the adjacent territory. A boulevard 125 
 feet wide, also coinciding with the city's tentative street plan, is pro- 
 vided along the line where the property fronts on Forest Park. In 
 addition, two avenues seventy (70) feet wide, with ample setback of 
 buildings, radiate from Station Square on direct but gently curving 
 lines, so located as to secure the best grades and the most agreeable 
 setting, through the middle of the property to the entrance of Forest 
 Park and to the Boulevard which is to follow its easterly boundary. 
 A third street 60 feet in width leads in a westerly direction through a 
 well wooded section to the junction of two proposed city streets, one of 
 which will eventually connect with Yellowstone Avenue. Other streets 
 secondary to the above in importance are sixty (60) feet in width, also 
 with setback for buildings, and follow lines which are direct but care- 
 fully related to the topography. 
 
 A second principle, which is very important to supplement the first, 
 is that those streets which are not needed as thoroughfares should be 
 planned and constructed to meet the purpose of quiet attractive resi- 
 dence streets in the best possible manner. To this end, the local streets 
 at Forest Hills Gardens are laid out so as to discourage their use as 
 thoroughfares. 'While not fantastically crooked, they are never per- 
 fectly straight for long stretches ; and their roadways are made narrow, 
 thus permitting additional space to be devoted to the planting spaces 
 and to the front gardens which will be one of the characteristic features 
 of the whole development. Probably one of the most notable charac- 
 teristics of Forest Hills Gardens from the point of view of the home- 
 seeker, when the plans are fully realized, will be the cozy, domestic 
 
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character of these local streets, where the monotony of endless, straight, 
 wind-swept thoroughfares will give place to short, quiet, self-contained 
 and garden-like neighborhoods, each having its own distinctive char- 
 acter. 
 
 A third principle that has controlled the design of Forest Hills 
 Gardens is the deliberate setting apart of certain areas for the common 
 use and enjoyment of the residents. The fortunate location of the tract 
 on the border of Forest Park has of course made it wholly needless 
 to provide any large park within the tract itself; but in spite of this 
 advantage, a public Green has been formed at the point where the 
 two main avenues divide, within view of the station and central to 
 that part of the property which is farthest from Forest Park. This 
 will form the residential focus of the community just as the neighbor- 
 ing Station Square will be its business focus. The portion of the Green 
 lying between the roads and devoted wholly to lawns and paths and 
 ornamental planting occupies one and one-half acres, but the size of 
 the whole open space of the Green, from building line to building line, 
 is about three and one-half acres. 
 
 The Station Square itself, although primarily a traffic center, is 
 of considerable size and the whole of the surrounding architecture, 
 including the railroad station and its approaches, is developed as a 
 single composition. It is treated with a regard for the pleasure the 
 residents may derive from its use that is impossible in the individual- 
 istic development of business centers usual even in the most costly and 
 most fashionable suburban districts. 
 
 In addition to the Green, two spaces in other parts of the tract, 
 one containing about an acre and a half, the other a little less than 
 an acre, have been set apart to form small parks for the use of the 
 residents. The smaller of the two, called Olivia Park, is located be- 
 tween Markwood and Deepdene Roads. It is well wooded with oak, 
 birch and flowering dogwood, and the center has been made into a 
 large lawn. This lawn is reached by a border path through masses 
 of flowering shrubs. 
 
 The second park is located between Beechknoll Road, Borage and 
 Park-end Place and Burns Street. This has been planted by the Com- 
 pany with a border of choice flowering shrubs, shade trees and ever- 
 greens. The central portion, which is turf, has been graded so that 
 it may be flooded in winter for skating. 
 
 What is believed to be a novel recreation feature in Forest Hills 
 Gardens, is that of the enclosed private parks. These are spaces of 
 varying shape and size, occupying the interior portion of some of the 
 
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blocks and intended for the exclusive use of those living- on the sur- 
 rounding lots. They cannot be used for the active, noisy games of large 
 boys and will not be open to the general public, but will provide places 
 where the smaller children of the block can get room to play instead of 
 being forced out upon the streets. They will be reached directly from 
 the rear yards of most of the houses in these blocks. 
 
 Planting 
 
 The plans for the planting in the sidewalk lawns, the parks and 
 other open spaces, have been developed by Mr. Olmsted in the form 
 of a carefully studied, unified design for the whole property. In order 
 to secure the special vista, or other decorative effect desired in each 
 street or block, unusual care has been taken in the designation of the 
 trees and shrubs to be used, and detailed maps were made on which 
 their locations are precisely indicated. 
 
 On the main thoroughfares, American Elms and other large- 
 growing trees are to be used. On the local streets, the purpose has 
 been to provide, in addition to shade and foliage, a touch of color 
 throughout the year. This is accomplished by the use of trees which 
 flower or bear fruit or berries at different seasons. For instance, some 
 streets are planted with English Hawthorn, Double Red Hawthorn 
 and Washington Thorn, combined with Japanese Lilac, the Varnish 
 Tree, flowering shrubs and plants. Other streets are planted with mag- 
 nolia, flowering dogwood and Japanese Pagoda trees, and occasionally 
 an Austrian or Swiss Pine has been introduced for the winter effect. 
 
 Paving 
 
 The streets are paved with a concrete base six inches thick, com- 
 posed of Hudson River Trap Rock, selected sand and a standard brand 
 of cement. The concrete is laid on a thoroughly solidified foundation 
 of local sand and gravelly soil. 
 
 This concrete base is protected by a coating of tar and grit, which 
 is dust-absorbing and makes an excellent surface for motor cars and 
 other vehicles. 
 
 Sidewalks and Curbs 
 
 The sidewalks and curbs, which are of concrete, are not given the 
 usual hard, smooth finish, but are so treated as to expose the varied 
 colors of the gravel. The resulting surface is much more pleasant in 
 color and texture, and provides a slightly roughened and more agree- 
 able footing. 
 
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Sewers and Storm Drains 
 
 There are to be sewers throughout the entire property. They are 
 being- laid in accordance with what is believed to be the best modern 
 practice in work of this character ; notably, perhaps, in the construc- 
 tion of two separate systems (one for storm or surface sewer con- 
 structed where deemed necessary, and the other throughout, a sanitary 
 system for house drainage) and in the use of bituminous joints in the 
 sanitary sewers, which prevent seepage and keep the roots of trees 
 from entering and choking the sewers. 
 
 All sewer mains are laid at the Company's expense ; the house 
 connections are laid by the Company at the expense of the owner. 
 
 Electric Light and Telephone Wires 
 
 The electric light and telephone wires will be carried in under- 
 ground conduits through the streets and to the interiors of all blocks, 
 where they will, generally, be carried along the rears of the lots on 
 short poles from which the house connections will be made. 
 
 Water and Gas Mains 
 
 Water and gas mains will be laid throughout the property. The 
 water comes from deep, driven wells, and, like most of the Long Island 
 water, is pure and cold. 
 
 Street Lights and Signs 
 
 The streets will be lighted by gas or electricity. Attractive lamp 
 posts and street signs will be placed at convenient locations over the 
 property. 
 
 Completion of Street Improvements 
 
 Much of the work involved has been done. The Company agrees 
 to complete the streets with the improvements so as to give access to 
 any lot before the completion of a house thereon. 
 
Types of Buildings to be Erected 
 
 While a large proportion of the land area to be developed is being 
 sold in lots, to be improved by the buyers according to plans approved 
 by the Homes Company, the Company, in order to set a standard and 
 influence the architectural character of the future town, has erected a 
 large number of dwellings. 
 
 To this end plans were prepared by Grosvenor Atterbury and a 
 number of other well-known architects acting under Mr. Atterbury's 
 general direction, for an initial operation comprising both groups of 
 buildings and detached and semi-detached houses. The execution of 
 this program has already involved an expenditure in building con- 
 struction of approximately one million nine hundred thousand dollars 
 ($1,900,000). 
 
 The different types of buildings included in these groups cover as 
 wide a range as is permitted by the economic conditions, which neces- 
 sarily determine also their distribution and location on the property. 
 Adjoining the railroad station and forming the Station Square is a 
 large grouping of buildings in which is the Forest Hills Inn, a modern 
 fireproof hotel with accommodations for two hundred guests and an 
 apartment house with stores and offices on the ground floor. From 
 this center out towards Forest Park, which bounds the property on 
 the southeast, the houses are planned to correspond to the varying 
 values of the lots as determined by their size, location and prospect, 
 the larger single-family dwellings containing ten or twelve rooms, 
 and the smaller six or seven. Following the land and road contours, 
 these are combined in smaller and more detached groups, as the vary- 
 ing requirements of the different sites demand. While they vary 
 greatly in size, arrangement, cost and architectural treatment, an 
 attempt has been made to make them alike in their domestic and 
 livable character. 
 
 In the matter of construction, the Company has thought it wise to 
 build in a more than ordinarily substantial manner, believing that the 
 additional cost involved in using masonry walls and piers, fire-proof 
 columns and girders, and tile roofs throughout, except in such struc- 
 tures as are entirely of fire-proof construction, is justified by the 
 lessened cost of maintenance, risk of fire loss and the longer life and 
 more substantial character of the investment. 
 
 This policy is being maintained both with respect to buildings 
 erected by the Company and those erected by lot purchasers irrespec- 
 tive of whether their houses are planned and financed by the Company 
 or by themselves. 
 
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Terms Under Which Vacant Lots 
 
 Vacant lots are sold in plots as they may from time to time be 
 designated on the price lists, the company reserving the right at 
 any time to increase or decrease the size of the plots offered for sale. 
 The general policy of the Company, however, as far as it may be 
 found advisable, will be to sell lots in plots of the sizes shown on the 
 present price list. A cash payment of five per cent. (5%) of the 
 purchase price is required, the balance may be paid in one hundred 
 and twenty (120) equal monthly instalments which will include pay- 
 ments on account of principal and interest on unpaid balances at five 
 per cent. (5%) per annum. 
 
 The purchaser will have the privilege at any time of anticipating 
 payment in part or in whole. 
 
 A discount of five per cent. (5%) will be allowed if the full pur- 
 chase price is paid in cash within sixty days from the date of the 
 contract. 
 
 If the purchaser has during the first year made all payments with- 
 in thirty (30) days of their respective due dates and observed all other 
 conditions of the contract, he shall thereafter be allowed on each pay- 
 ment ninety (go) days before forfeiture may be declared. 
 
 A deed will be given, if desired, when one-half of the purchase 
 price has been paid, the purchaser to execute and deliver the com- 
 pany a bond and purchase-money mortgage for the unpaid balance, 
 bearing interest at the rate of five and one-half per cent. (5^%), 
 payable semi-annually, which mortgage will run for a period of one. 
 two or three years, as may be desired. The purchaser is to pay the 
 cost of recording the necessary papers ; also the mortgage recording 
 tax of one-half per cent. of the amount of the mortgage. 
 
 No deed will be delivered to a purchaser until all taxes, interest, 
 assessments and maintenance charges are paid in full to date of 
 transfer. 
 
 Be Sold 
 
 Extension of Time for Payments 
 
 Delivery of Deed 
 
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Deed in Case of Death 
 
 In case of the death of a purchaser while the contract of sale is 
 in force and before the deed is delivered, his heirs shall have the right 
 to continue the contract and take deed to the property ; or they may 
 require the Company, at its option, either to return to them all princi- 
 pal and interest paid up to the death of the purchaser with interest 
 thereon at five per cent. (5%) per annum, or to convey the property 
 to the heirs free from further payment. 
 
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Terms Under Which Houses 
 Will Be Sold 
 
 Houses built by the Company for its own account will be offered 
 for sale upon a cash payment of ten per cent. (10%) of the selling 
 price of house and land. The company will, if desired, build, or have 
 built, a limited number of houses not to exceed one hundred (100) 
 for lot purchasers according to their own plans, provided such plans 
 have been approved in writing by the Company as set forth in sub- 
 division Fifth of the Declaration. Only one house will be built for 
 each purchaser, and only when he has paid on the purchase price of 
 the land an amount equal to the cash payment as set forth in the 
 table hereto appended, entitled "Schedule of Cash Payments." 
 
 SCHEDULE OF CASH PAYMENTS 
 Based ox the Cost of the Laxd axd the Estimated Cost of the 
 
 House. 
 
 Cost of House and Land Cash Payment 
 
 $10,000 and under $1,000 
 
 11,000 1,200 
 
 12,000 1,400 
 
 13,000 1,600 
 
 14,000 1,800 
 
 15.000 2,000 
 
 16,000 2,200 
 
 17,000 2,400 
 
 18,000 2,600 
 
 19,000 2,800 
 
 20,000 3,000 
 
 21,000 3,400 
 
 22,000 3,800 
 
 23,000 4,200 
 
 24,000 4,600 
 
 25.000 5,ooo 
 
 26,000 and over 25% 
 
 The Company will secure for the purchaser, if so desired, a first 
 mortgage for any amount up to fifty per cent. (50%) of the selling 
 price of the house and land for three (3) years with interest at not 
 more than five and one-half per cent. (5^%) per annum, payable 
 semi-annually, the purchaser to pay the recording and acknowledg- 
 
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ment fees and the mortgage tax. The Company will agree to secure 
 the renewal of this mortgage at maturity for the same term, provided 
 the grantee to whom the property was first conveyed is then the 
 owner. The expenses of such renewal shall be paid by the owner. 
 
 The balance of the purchase price, over and above the cash pay- 
 ment and first mortgage, is to be secured by the purchaser's bond and 
 a second mortgage, payable in one hundred and twenty (120) equal 
 monthly installments which will include payments on account of princi- 
 pal and interest at six per cent. (6%) per annum. 
 
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Offer of Plans and Specifications 
 
 In order to stimulate the early improvement of vacant lots and 
 to maintain the high standard of design and construction in the build- 
 ings erected in Forest Hills Gardens, the Company will prepare or 
 cause to be prepared plans and specifications for houses, together 
 with grading and planting plans, at a nominal charge of two and one- 
 half per cent. (2j^%) of the cost of each house. As such plans and 
 specifications cost the Company from 5% to 10% of the cost of the 
 building and other improvements, the difference between the actual 
 cost and the charge made by the Company is equivalent to a substan- 
 tial cash premium. 
 
 Information 
 
 For Purchasers Contemplating Engaging the Services 
 of Architects, Other Than Those Associated 
 With the Company 
 
 The building restrictions and conditions in general, governing the 
 erection of a house, are clearly set forth in this pamphlet. 
 
 In order to avoid misunderstanding, involving needless work and 
 expense, the Company advises a conference between the purchaser, 
 the architect, and a proper representative of the Company before any 
 sketches are made by the owner's architect, at which the general type 
 of building desired and proposed by the owner may be considered and 
 the wishes of the company with relation to such matters explained. 
 Conclusions reached at such a conference, however, must be under- 
 stood to be tentative only, and largely for the purpose of ascertaining 
 whether the ideas of the purchaser or his architect are in any way 
 objectionable to or inconsistent with the general scheme of the de- 
 velopment, and therefore not mutually advantageous to the Company 
 and its various purchasers. The final approval of the plans can only be 
 based upon completed working drawings, from which the house is to 
 be built — a description of the proposed treatment of the exterior, both 
 walls and roofs, with respect to material and color, and a block plan 
 showing the location of the house, the amount of free space to be left 
 on either side, in front and rear, and the general scheme of grading and 
 planting. The Company, how T ever, may be wisely consulted from time 
 to time during the development of the drawings, whenever questions 
 arise which may affect its approval or disapproval of the plans. 
 
 Purchasers and architects are advised, for their own protection, 
 that all plans must bear the stamp of approval of the Sage Founda- 
 tion Homes Company before the same are filed for record with the 
 Municipal Building Department. 
 
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Restrictions and Conditions 
 
 The experience of other suburban developments has demonstrated 
 the advantage to the lot owner of the adoption of protective restric- 
 tions which tend to promote and preserve the residential advantages 
 of the neighborhood. The restrictions and conditions adopted for 
 Forest Hills Gardens, in addition to those of conventional form which 
 have been approved by the experience of others, include some provisions 
 which are believed to be novel and which, it is thought, will be of 
 further advantage either to the property as a whole, or to portions 
 affected by special local provisions. Among these, is one which re- 
 quires an open space to be left on each side of every building, or 
 block of buildings, the extent of which is regulated by the width of 
 the building, so that the wider the building, or block of buildings, 
 the greater the amount of open space required on each side. This 
 regulation, combined with the setback required from the street, will 
 make it possible to permit blocks of buildings, when properly treated 
 as single architectural compositions, to be located anywhere on the 
 property. So designed and so spaced, they will, it is believed, lend 
 to the street perspectives and to the appearance of the property as a 
 whole an interest and variety of a kind not obtainable where the 
 houses are either all detached or all in blocks, and where it is con- 
 sequently difficult to escape a certain degree of monotony resulting 
 from too great a uniformity in the sizes of the buildings, and in the 
 widths of the spaces between them. 
 
 It will be observed that the restrictions have been given an un- 
 usually long life, and do not expire until the year 1950, and that pro- 
 vision is made for their further extension, if at that time it is so de- 
 cided by the lot owners. Though it is desirable to provide the protec- 
 tion which is afforded by long-time restrictions, the conditions sur- 
 rounding property are so subject to rapid change that a term as long 
 as the above would be unsafe, except for a further provision, which 
 has been made, giving the Company the right to modify or change 
 any of the restrictions and covenants, except those contained in the 
 "Nuisance Clause" and in the clause providing for the "General [Main- 
 tenance Charges." 
 
 The covenants and restrictions are precisely and fully set forth 
 in the Declaration which has been filed for record, a copy of which will 
 be supplied on request, and with which the Company expects each pur- 
 
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chaser to familiarize himself, before entering into any contract. The 
 following is an informal and condensed statement of its more impor- 
 tant features : 
 
 RESTRICTIONS AND AGREEMENTS AFFECTING THE 
 ENTIRE PROPERTY 
 
 Nuisance Clause 
 The "Nuisance Clause" prohibits any brewery, distillery, malt 
 house, slaughter house, brass foundry, tin, nail or other iron foundry, 
 lime kiln, or sugar bakery, tallow chandlery, crematory, hospital, asy- 
 lum or institution of like or kindred nature, stable of any kind, cattle 
 yard, hog pen, fowl yard or house, cesspool, privy vault, cattle, hogs 
 or other live stock or live poultry ; any establishment for the making 
 or preparing of soap, candles, starch, vitriol, glue, ink, turpentine, oil, 
 lamp black, gunpowder, dynamite or other explosives, baking powder, 
 cream of tartar, gas, asphalt or fertilizers ; any establishment for bone 
 boiling, fat boiling, dyeing, tanning, dressing or preparing of skins, 
 hides or leather ; any noxious, dangerous or offensive thing, trade, 
 business or use of the property whatsoever. 
 
 Approval of Plans 
 The plans and specifications for the erection or alteration of build- 
 ings, fences, walls, or other structures, must be approved by the Com- 
 pany in writing before work is begun. Such plans and specifications 
 must show the nature, kind, shape, height, material, color scheme and 
 location of the structure and the grading plan of the lot — a copy to 
 be lodged permanently with the Homes Company. 
 
 Minimum Cost 
 
 The minimum cost of the house to be erected will be specified in 
 each deed. 
 
 Generally speaking, the rule followed in establishing the varying 
 requirements of minimum cost of dwellings will be: for detached 
 and semi-detached houses, from four to five times the value of a 20- 
 foot lot in the immediate neighborhood; and for houses in blocks, 
 from three to four times the value of a 20-foot lot. This rule is, 
 however, subject to exceptions. 
 
 Easements Reserved 
 Easements and rights-of-way are reserved for poles, wires and 
 conduits for lighting, telephone and other purposes, and for sewers and 
 
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pipes of various kinds, in order to keep such poles, etc., out of the 
 streets. These reservations are confined, wherever practicable, to the 
 rear three (3) feet of the lots. 
 
 Title to Streets 
 
 The Company reserves, temporarily at least, the title to all streets, 
 together with the right to grade them in accordance with such grades 
 as it may establish, but makes provision that if, or whenever, any 
 public authority shall acquire the streets by condemnation, or other- 
 wise, the Company will apply any compensation it may receive for the 
 streets taken, exclusive of compensation for structures owned by it, 
 against any possible assessment which such public authority shall make. 
 
 Encroachments on Streets 
 
 In the improvements around and near Station Square portions of 
 bridges and buildings erected by the Company will encroach over or 
 upon portions of the streets. These encroachments are indicated on 
 the recorded plat. The Company reserves the right to erect bridges 
 in other localities. 
 
 General Maintenance Charges 
 
 All of the land in Forest Hills Gardens (including that owned by 
 the Company), with certain exceptions enumerated in the Declaration 
 (these exceptions, for the most part, being land used for public or 
 semi-public purposes), is made subject to an annual assessment of 
 two mills per square foot of its area. This is equivalent to $4.00 a 
 year on a lot 20 x 100 feet. These assessments are for the purpose of 
 creating a fund to be applied toward the cost of lighting, improving 
 and maintaining the streets, parks, and other open spaces, of collect- 
 ing garbage, of maintaining the sewerage system and of other services 
 relating to the general welfare of the residents, the particulars of 
 which are set out in the Declaration. These assessments are to be 
 paid to the Company and the fund thereby created is to be adminis- 
 tered by the Company. The Company will pay into this fund its 
 quota of the assessments, in proportion to the area of the lots still 
 owned by it each year, but the company will not be under obligation 
 to pay into the fund more than the amount of its share as so deter- 
 mined. 
 
 These maintenance charges will not take the place of city or other 
 taxes. They must be paid by the lot owner. 
 
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Right to Modify 
 
 The restrictions contained in the "Nuisance Clause" and the pro- 
 visions governing- the so-called "General Maintenance Charges," are 
 fixed and cannot be waived or modified without unanimous consent. 
 The provisions governing the so-called general maintenance charges 
 cannot be waived until after ten (10) years, and then only with the 
 consent of the owners of more than fifty per cent. (50%) in area of 
 the lots. Any other restrictions, covenants, conditions, charges or 
 agreements contained in the Declaration or deeds, may be annulled, 
 waived or changed by the Homes Company as to its own property, 
 and, with the consent of the owner, as to any property which it has sold. 
 
 The purpose of this provision is to afford means of appropriate 
 relief, if it should hereafter appear to the Company that any of the 
 restrictions and agreements have been unwisely adopted, or that owing 
 to changed conditions, they have become unsuitable for certain por- 
 tions or for all of the property. 
 
 Right to Abate and Assign 
 Provisions are made giving the Company the right summarily to 
 abate the violation of any restriction or agreement, and the right to 
 assign any of its rights and powers contained in the Declaration. 
 
 Right to Extend 
 The restrictions, unless modified, continue in force until January 
 1st, 1950, and provision is made for their extension beyond that time, 
 for successive periods of twenty (20) years without limitation, upon 
 the vote of the owners of two-thirds in area of the lots. 
 
 Right to Enforce 
 Either the Homes Company, or any lot owner, may enforce any 
 of the restrictions and agreements. 
 
 RESTRICTIONS AFFECTING THE ENTIRE PROPERTY, 
 EXCEPT PROPERTY RESERVED FOR BUSINESS OR 
 OTHER USES AND ENUMERATED IN SUBDIVI- 
 SION "FIRST," PARAGRAPH "(A)," OF THE 
 DECLARATION 
 
 Residences and Garages 
 The property is to be used for purposes of private residence only, 
 houses for occupation by more than two families not being permitted. 
 Private garages are permitted under certain limitations, and no private 
 stables will be permitted. 
 
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Setbacks from Streets and Rear of Lots 
 
 It is provided that no part of any building, except porches, steps 
 and bay, bow and oriel windows, shall be permitted within certain speci- 
 fied distances of the front and side streets, respectively, nor within ten 
 (10) feet of the rear lines of lots. The setbacks from front streets 
 are, generally, twenty-five (25) feet, but in some localities are more 
 or less. Porches, steps, and bay, bow and oriel windows may encroach 
 on these spaces, the extent of the encroachments permitted being set 
 out in the Declaration. 
 
 This restriction does not apply to lots 1 to 9 inclusive in Block 3. 
 
 Garages may not be built within sixty (60) feet of any front 
 street, or within twenty-five (25) feet of any other street thirty (30) 
 feet, or more, in width. 
 
 These several requirements are based upon careful consideration 
 from architectural and other points of view, and are designed to per- 
 mit just as much freedom in the use of the individual lot as is possible 
 without injuring the proper aspect of each street as a whole. 
 
 Free Spaces at Sides of Buildings 
 
 It is required that free, or open, spaces shall be left on both sides 
 of every building or block of buildings. The width of free space re- 
 quired increases with the increased width of the building, in accord- 
 ance with the rule set out in the Declaration. A table, giving typical 
 examples of the application of this rule, will be found in Appendix 
 "A" of this pamphlet. 
 
 Not less than thirty-five per cent. (35%) of the total amount of 
 free space required on both sides, is to be left on any one side in the 
 case of a detached building, not less than forty per cent. (40%) of 
 such total in the case of a block of buildings. 
 
 These free spaces may be encroached upon by porches, steps and 
 bay, bow and oriel windows, the extent of the encroachments allowed 
 being stated in the Declaration. 
 
 This restriction does not apply to lots 1 to 9, inclusive, in Block 3. 
 
 Maximum Width of Building 
 
 It is provided that no building or block of buildings shall be more 
 than two hundred and fifty (250) feet in width or length. 
 
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PROVISION APPLICABLE ONLY TO LOTS IN CONNEC- 
 TION WITH WHICH UNDIVIDED INTERESTS IN 
 "PRIVATE PARKS" AND "PRIVATE LANES" 
 ARE CONVEYED 
 
 Special Maintenance Charges — Private Parks 
 
 The above lots are made subject to an annual assessment, propor- 
 tionate to such undivided interest, sufficient to provide a fund equal 
 to seven and one-half (7V2) mills per square foot of the respective 
 areas of such parks and lanes — to be expended for their mainte- 
 nance and for other uses as enumerated in the Declaration. Inasmuch 
 as in each case the total area of the lots connected with a private park 
 is considerably greater than the area of the park, this annual charge 
 will amount to less per square foot of lot area than the amount given 
 above, and will range, with the different parks, from one (1) to two 
 and a half (2 J A) mills per square foot of lot area. 
 
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APPENDIX "A" 
 
 TABLE OF TYPICAL EXAMPLES OF FREE SPACE REQUIRED 
 AT SIDES OF BUILDINGS OF DIFFERENT WIDTHS 
 
 (See rule as set forth in "Declaration") 
 
 
 Minimum total free space, 
 
 1 1 r 1 , 
 
 Width of lot required 
 
 
 counting both sides of 
 building 
 
 Width oi 
 
 (width of build- 
 
 Building 
 
 
 
 
 ing plus free 
 
 
 
 
 
 In percentage 01 
 
 In feet 
 
 space) 
 
 
 width 
 
 of building 
 
 
 L u ess I 30 feet 
 than f 
 
 
 
 15.0 Iccl 
 
 ( plus 
 15.0 feet -j house 
 ( width 
 
 70 " 
 
 
 50.0 
 
 npr ^ ( M "1 f 
 JJCI CCIll. 
 
 <{ 
 
 I5.0 
 
 4^.0 " 
 
 
 AO 1 
 
 49-/ 
 
 U << 
 
 tc n " 
 o-y 
 
 47.9 " 
 
 o4 
 
 AO A 
 
 II M 
 
 if, R " 
 1 0.0 
 
 50.8 
 
 -*6 " 
 
 Ad T 
 
 11 CI 
 
 T*7 *7 " 
 
 ^ 7 " 
 jo - / 
 
 38 " 
 
 aR R 
 
 M « 
 
 10.5 
 
 56.5 " 
 
 AO 
 
 aR c 
 
 4o- 5 
 
 11 u 
 
 ly.4 
 
 59.4 " 
 
 42 " 
 
 iR 9 
 
 u .< 
 
 20.2 
 
 62.2 " 
 
 44 
 
 AH O 
 
 « tt 
 
 21. 1 
 
 65.I " 
 
 46 " 
 
 A *7 f\ 
 47.0 
 
 (1 (I 
 
 21.9 
 
 67.9 
 
 48 " 
 
 47-3 
 
 II it 
 
 
 70.7 " 
 
 <;o " 
 
 47.0 
 
 II 11 
 
 ^3o 
 
 / J-D 
 
 
 40.7 
 
 II II 
 
 24-3 
 
 76.3 " 
 
 54 
 
 a(~i a 
 4U.4 
 
 11 11 
 
 OC T " 
 25.1 
 
 79.1 
 
 
 A& t 
 
 40.1 
 
 II II 
 
 25.0 
 
 8l.8 " 
 
 <;8 " 
 
 azR 
 45 -° 
 
 M II 
 
 26.6 " 
 
 84.6 " 
 
 60 " 
 
 AC C 
 
 45o 
 
 « (( 
 
 27.3 
 
 87.3 " 
 
 62 " 
 
 /I C 1 
 
 45-2 
 
 (( «« 
 
 28.0 " 
 
 90.0 " 
 
 64 " 
 
 44.9 
 
 «< II 
 
 28/ " 
 
 92.7 
 
 66 " 
 
 44.0 
 
 11 II 
 
 29.4 
 
 954 " 
 
 68 " 
 
 44-3 
 
 M «« 
 
 30.1 
 
 98.1 " 
 
 70 " 
 
 44.0 
 
 II II 
 
 30.0 
 
 100.8 " 
 
 
 43 - 2 5 
 
 II II 
 
 32.4 
 
 107.4 " 
 
 80 " 
 
 4 2 -5 
 
 U «( 
 
 34-0 
 
 1 14.0 " 
 
 
 4.1 7t 
 
 II II 
 
 35-5 
 
 120.5 " 
 
 OO " 
 
 41.O 
 
 II II 
 
 3 0, 9 
 
 126.9 " 
 
 yo 
 
 40.25 
 
 (( (( 
 
 38.2 
 
 133.2 " 
 
 100 " 
 
 39-5 
 
 
 39-5 " 
 
 139.5 " 
 
 no " 
 
 38.0 
 
 
 41.8 " 
 
 I5I.8 " 
 
 120 " 
 
 36.5 
 
 M « 
 
 43.8 " 
 
 165.8 " 
 
 130 " 
 
 35-0 
 
 (« « 
 
 45-5 " 
 
 175-5 " 
 
 I40 " 
 
 33-5 
 
 (( (« 
 
 46.9 " 
 
 186.9 " 
 
 150 " 
 
 32.0 
 
 
 48.0 " 
 
 I98.O " 
 
 160 " 
 
 30.5 
 
 II II 
 
 48.8 " 
 
 208.8 
 
 170 " 
 
 29.O 
 
 (1 II 
 
 49-3 " 
 
 219.3 " 
 
 180 " . 
 
 27.5 
 
 II II 
 
 49-5 " 
 
 229.5 " 
 
 100 " 
 
 26.18 
 
 
 49-75 ' 
 
 239-75 
 
 200 " 
 
 25.O 
 
 II II 
 
 50.0 
 
 250.0 " 
 
 210 " 
 
 25.0 
 
 
 52.5 " 
 
 262.50 " 
 
 220 " 
 
 25.0 
 
 II II 
 
 55-0 " 
 
 275.0 " 
 
 230 " 
 
 25.0 
 
 «< <« 
 
 57-5 " 
 
 287.5 " 
 
 240 " 
 
 25.O 
 
 
 60.0 
 
 300.0 
 
 250 " 
 
 25.O 
 
 II II 
 
 62.5 " 
 
 312.5 " 
 
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William Siegrist, inc. 
 
 PRINTER 
 
 9-15 MURRAY STRtET 
 NEW YORK