San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 306
out just anotherpublic office build-ing? Every city hasthem; some height-limit monuments toAmerican utilitar-ianism, structures sotall that only ajungle monkey inhis highest palmtree could appreci-ate them; others sofull of plate glasswindows that itwould drive ahousewife mad try-ing to compute… … inevitably land one just where henot wish to go. But I had not thenthe Court House at Santa Barbara,refreshingly dififerent! Santa Barbara isa Spanish city, notonly by preferencesince the earth-quake of 19 2 5forced it to largelyrebuild, but by in-heritance. F o r ahundred and fiftyyears it has…
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