San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 31
frame con-struction, but this is not permitted in Mexico Cityfor permanent buildings. Prices of lumber are high,and each piece of staging is carefully handledand preserved. Builders hove found other mate-rials available. In the suburbs are immense fieldsof durable dark gray volcanic stone. Brick… … Adobe buildings, not only for the poorer classesof dwellings, but for almost all others, have beenerected and used here from the beginning of thesettlement. Many such buildings can be found inuse today that are 200 and 300 years old. Mexico City is practically fireproof constructionand has fairly…
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