ACACIA COTTAGE.
(To tile Editor.) Pir.—May I be permitted to criticise the erection of Acacia Cottage in its new position facing the kiosk on Cue Tree Hill? This little "spot, haunted with the rare spirit of beauty, and excluded among numerous shapely trees and shrubs with distant harbour view? between, has always been to mc the moet delightful in Auckland. Its beauty has been sadly marred by the introduction of thie antiquated building. I fully appreciate the historical value that is attached to Acacia Cottage, but why was it not placed back anions the treie. where it might sleep in the shadows with its past! It looks tragic, cold, out of place where it stands, on an ugly projecting rock base, without eupport or approach. Sir John Logan Campbell, who at one time intended this place to be a front lawn to hie proposed home, would certainly have been grieved to se<> it thus rudely invaded and spoiled. 1 trust steps will be taken to move the building further back into the background.—l am, etc., ARCHITECT.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 27, 1 February 1921, Page 7
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