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Identifier: architectenginee11333sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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afountain pen while sitting in a car. Although some-what roughly done, they will serve to give thereader a very comprehensive idea of the archi-tecture of the place. It. ET us drop themodern jig-saw for awhile and go backsome fifty years to another one—a lumberbarons baronial hall — in the townof Eureka. California — a house built inthat era of a jig-sawyers paradise in 1885.And what a good time the sawyer musthave had with this architectural calamity! What a horrible misshapen mass, andhow busy it is with detail. is our first com-ment. We long for a quiet place to rest oureyes. If we only could! Certainly in noplace has a greater degree of harmony andrest been more desirable. Its many projec-tions — turrets, cupolas: domerwindows,balconies, and bay windows: gables, itstower, and profusion of roof lines and un-necessary over-hangs add to the generalconfusion of its wealth of detail. Even theheight is way out of proportion—the threeprincipal stories equaling about five of our
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^Sf^ A LU.MBER BARONS BARONIAL HALL,EUREKA. CALIFORNIA present day floors. It is given still furtherheight by steep Mansard roofs and byraising the first floor some five feet off theground—the customary practice of a fewyears ago. This enormous house, almostentirely of wood, truly represents the acmeof the taste—or perhaps pathetic lack oftaste. — of the eighties, but regardless of ^ 25 ► whether one likes it or not, this mansionwas to the Victorian architecture in onerespect what the Parthenon was to GrecianArchitecture.—that is, a culmination of allpreceding efforts in its style, but I do notmean to imply that this house is as great

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  • bookid:architectenginee11333sanf
  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture
  • booksubject:Building
  • bookpublisher:San_Francisco___Architect_and_Engineer__Inc
  • bookcontributor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
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  • bookleafnumber:318
  • bookcollection:sanfranciscopubliclibrary
  • bookcollection:americana
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