GAVIN HADDEN
CIVIL ENGINEER
607 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK

 

DESIGN — SUPERVISION — CONSULTATION

 

RECREATION FACILITIES:
FIELDS, COURTS, POOLS, TRACKS, RINKS, STANDS, PLAYGROUNDS, GYMNASIA
FIELD HOUSES, STADIA, INDOOR TENNIS COURTS

 

AIRPORTS

March) » 1940

Dear “IS. GO darn .

It occurs to me that you may be interested in knowing the ideal
orientation for outdoor tennis courts in your location, for the various
popular playing hours during the year. This information may be useful to
you not only in determining for what period or periods of play your existing
courts may be best suited by their orientation, but also in determining how
best to orient any new courts which may be added to your recreation equipment
in the future.

The various ideal orientations for the usual hours of play for

your location in Qausrrnen are:

Summer Afternoons: N 10° E
Winter Afternoons: N — E
Summer Mornings: N 4a" W
Winter Mornings: y= WW

Each of these represents the ideal bearing of the net line of the
court for the corresponding playing hours.

The figures written in above have been read directly from a pair
of maps which have been recently completed in my office, showing the ideal
orientation of outdoor tennis courts in the United States—for summer after-
noons and summer mornings throughout the whole country, and for winter
afternoons and winter mornings as well in the southern states and the west
coast area. These maps have been devised by astronomical calculations in
the same way as the football and baseball orientation maps published
previously and reproduced in the booklet illustrating some of the work of
my office on the design of facilities for recreation.

I hope to publish the tennis maps in a book which I am preparing
on "Tennis Courts-——Their Design, Construction and Maintenance", but this
publication is still in the future, and meanwhile I hope you may be inter-
ested in the above information. If you know of anyone planning new tennis
courts who might like to have similar information please let me know.

Faithfully yours,

CH:AK aren * \ Gs