San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 564
lent characteristic of these older Californian ranch houseswas the comparatively simple and honest manner in which the wood wastreated. Built though thev were at the time when the jig-saw was throughoutthe Ea^t malevolentlv distorting the ornamental woodwork of even thecheapest houses, they escaped… … Pergola of the Hotel Maryland at Pasadena to turn the carpenter into a cheap substitute tor the sione-cutter. It sohappened that the easiest and most economical way to build happened tomake a tolerably pleasing building, and by the same happy chance, eventhe barns, thrown together as they were in…
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