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Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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durability and suitability andproceeded forthwith to carry out the old Mission scheme ofarchitecture in his own way. The result was a wonderful andbeautiful array of Mission houses as they are called—nowthe typical homes of the Golden State. The extravagant Castilian of early days had little money dobes. Santa Barbara, Redlands, San Diego, Monterey,and of late San Francisco, have blossomed into this gay styleof building. The modern architects have long since departed from theseverity into which the monks disciplined their Moorisharchitecture. The Moor taught the Spaniards to build. Theprinciples of that form of construction were brought by theearly band of Padres to the Pacific coast, but poverty andtheir religious beliefs caused them to select the useful prin-ciples of that architecture and let the ornamental, or at anyrate, the ornate, go. The architect of to-day is not hamperedby poverty and asceticism. For his ideas he has gone back 378 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS December, 1906
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The House of Mr. J. Parkinson, Los Angeles, California to the Missions, and still farther back, to the Moorish build-ings before them. Sentiment for the traditions of the state and a love ofbeauty have probably been at the bottom of this dobeuprising. However, for those who want a practical explana-tion, the architect submits the theory that no style of buildingis so well adapted to the semi-tropical climate. The Padresrealized that brick withstands the summers heat. It is quiteas true that it shuts out the winters cold, so there seems tobe no reason why it should not be as comfortable in any partof the United States as on the coast where it arose. The original buildings were of adobe, which was a brickbaked in the sun. As the new buildings are made of ordinarybrick, there is no legitimate reason for their name. Up-to-date cement laid upon the bricks takes the place of the prim-itive plaster which the Spanish used. The finish is of cal-cimine just as it used to be, so the modern wall

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