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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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den Gate Park Museum is being con-structed of concrete, with plastered wall surfaces, andornaniental work of cast cement. The plaster of thewalls is a soft bufT pink, combed to an agreeable texture.The cast work is of similar color, slightly lighter in tone. This work shows an interesting development of decora-tive ideas which Mr. Mullgardt first used in the Court ofAges, or Court of Abundance, at the Panama-Pacific In-ternational E.xposition. While Mr. Mullgardts facility withf)encil is recognized, it is not generally known that he isequally at home in the handling of clay. Few people knewthat at the Exposition considerable portions of his modeledornament were from his own hand. He is also personallyresponsible for much of the modeling of detail of thisbuilding. The sculptural panels in the frieze are the workof Mr. Leo Lentelli, who also co-operated with Mr. Mull-gardt in his work at the Exposition. The photograph opposite was taken during construction. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 79
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80 /■///•: ARCHITECT AXD EXGIXIiliR IIOTKL l-UR VOSE.MrriC \ALLI-:V. (DESIGN A.) AS originally contemplated, the iiroijosefl hotel forYoseniite \alley was to have been an extensive build-ing of stone construction, and was to have been accom-panied by the development of commercial and social centers. Mr. Mullgardt is invariably felicitous in the spotting ofirregular masses. This design is also an instance of theintimate interplay between landscape and architecture whichcharacterizes his composition. The passive horizontality ofthe building, in contrast with the tumultuous aspiration ofthe landscape, will be appreciated by anyone with a sym-pathetic understanding of our mountain scenery. As a drawing this exhibits Mr. Mullgardt at his best.More than one painter has paid frequent visits to the Valleyand covered much paper and canvas with paint, only tocome away with less of its spirit and scale than is heresuggested. The drawing is an interesting example of im-aginative evocation: it

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