This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ... precedent should always govern. The Spanish set their stamp on the coast, and working along the lines of the Spanish Renaissance in material that was local and characteristic, they produced a type that gave Mr. Bertram Goodhue a chance to show how completely charming, and home-like as well, the white, flat roofed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ... precedent should always govern. The Spanish set their stamp on the coast, and working along the lines of the Spanish Renaissance in material that was local and characteristic, they produced a type that gave Mr. Bertram Goodhue a chance to show how completely charming, and home-like as well, the white, flat roofed concrete house might be. (The Gillespie house at Santa Barbara, illustrated in the following chapter.) At first blush one would say this house could look well only in that luxuriant setting, but 1 can imagine it almost equally lovely and at home in some of the reaches of the Maine coast, set amid cedar and fir, on the hillside, springs feeding its fountains, and its outlook over the sea. At first blush a Virginian red brick house might seem out of place in California, but I can imagine one set in the midst of an orchard, or surrounded by formal gardens, looking as homelike as it does in England, and as much in keeping with its surroundings. The Spanish Mission Type By George C. Baum Many of the houses that have the tile roof and characteristic arches of the Mission tyjte vary from it in other details The arched doorways and gable ends are Mission characteristics; the porch is an addition made necessary by the lack of an interior court The Spanish Mission Type THE words " Spanish Mission" bring to the mind but one thought, --a group of buildings scattered over Southern California. The buildings and the location seem to be synonymous; the one suggests the other. Instantly the mind pictures a warm and sunny climate, a group of palm and magnolia trees, in the shadow of which nestles a low and rambling building, covered with vines and rose bushes. Charming: we exclaim. Yes, charming beyond description. California, the land of sunshine and rose...
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