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old - Victorian period houses, rather than the oldest houses. They had high ceilings and a high stoop, with heavy brownstone balustrades. This small square was lined on both sides with these houses. Martha Draper had one of those and Waller's father's house and the one he lived in was one of them. I think his was the larger one out toward the corner.

Old Mr. Walker had owned a great deal of the land around there and probably built it on spac, or bought it on spec at some time in his career as a contractor. I remember Martha Draper saying that the land values deteriorated in there as time went on. It ceased to be an elegant place. Jimmy Walker had managed to unload a large part of the houses and land that he owned in there on the city for public schools, when no public school was needed there. It was the wrong location for a public school. There was a need for a public school, but in a very different location. This was out of the way, but Walker had unloaded it. I'm not sure that the name of the school didn't have Walker's father's name in it.

Martha Draper was a frequent visitor at that school. She knew Jimmy Walker. She was interested, since it was already built and a growing concern, in having it a good school. She used to see him and persuaded him to use his influence to have certain things done there - certain playgrounds developed, certain projects provided for.