North Lawn (White House) requirement for public views of the White House. The Olmsted plan presented the landscape largely as seen today: retaining or planting large specimen trees and shrubs on the perimeter to create boundaries for visual privacy, but opened with generous sight lines of the house from north and south. The lawn is planted with a grass variety called tall fescue ("Festuca arundinacea)." Trees on the North lawn include fern-leaf beech ("Fagus sylvatica asplenifolia"), American elm ("Ulmus americana"), white oak ("Quercus alba"), white saucer magnolia ("Magnolia × soulangeana"), red maple ("Acer rubrum"), American Chestnut Tree ("Castanea dentata)" and American and English boxwood
Fagus Factory are left open and the piers are recessed leaving the glass surface to the front. Gropius describes this transformation by saying, "The role of the walls becomes restricted to that of mere screens stretched between the upright columns of the framework to keep out rain, cold and noise" At the time of the design of Fagus, Gropius was collecting photographs of industrial buildings in the USA to be used for a Deutscher Werkbund publication. The design of these American factories was also a source of inspiration for Fagus. Carl Benscheidt (1858–1947) founded the Fagus company in 1910. He had then