Marconi Road, First Street and the north side of Second Street are lined with large mature sycamore trees planted on grass lawns.  The red brick Marconi buildings with their red Imperial tile roofs and white concrete accents give the original Marconi Station portion of Camp Evans a park-like look.  The two Marconi Cottages, located on the bluff edge have nearly all their 1914 plantings, now mature.   Around the porch of the hotel, the shrubs, planted in 1914, still grace the building.  The original, hedge-lined, tennis and recreation area is now a hedge-lined parking lot west of the hotel.   Near the rivers edge is the Marconi wireless operations buildings.  The area was cleared but never landscaped as the rest of the station.  Over the years the area has filled with new tree growth.

In 1941-42 the Army added laboratory buildings behind the former Marconi station buildings in the old antenna field.  The building were placed in parallel with the hotel and main road giving the site symmetry.  The color brick selected for the 400-foot radar laboratories complements the original Marconi brick.  Each Marconi and later added radar laboratory buildings has a similar grass lawn set back from the service roads.  The laboratory buildings have shrubs similar in appearance to the Marconi plantings.

The isolated Project Diana site is fenced and has no shrubs or landscaping.  As a laboratory work site it has very utilitarian layout.  The 60-foot diameter radar dish, near the center of the site, towers above the trees.  The top portion of the disk can be seen from the entire Shark River basin.
 

Updated January 27, 2004    Page created July 4, 2002