The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 40
y base and common materials in their construction, for I takeit that ideality and adaptation to environment are fundamental architecturalvirtues which may, under some conditions, overrank even academic cor-rectness and the niceties of perfected construction. To appreciate Mission architecture we… … Columbus discovery, in the year 1542, one Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, aPortuguese navigator in the employment of Spain, discovered and tosome extent explored the coast of Alta California. The hardships enduredby the sailors of his two small vessels, and Cabrillos death throughaccident on San Miguel,…
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