The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 211
Western Canada. The buildingsthereabouts are built of native granite, great glistening spalls of it takenfrom the fields. The rough staliles, sheds and farmhouses built of it with-out thought of effect are beautiful and picturesque in the extreme. Butbecause rock faced granite was common and cheap… … THOMAS BKOUS BVILDIXG, MOXTEREV. CALIFORXIAllm. H. ll\c-l;s, Architccl with yellow pressed brick, and of these the principal fronts were labnrioiislyand hideously decorated, while the rear and side walls were built of graniterubble—the only parts of the building worth looking at. Now, from all this…
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