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Stately homes of California (1915)

Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951 · Boston, Little, Brown, and company · leaf 58

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he Great Wall clambers over the mountains of China.In front of the mansion stretch lawns picked out with orna-mental plants, while behind it, the tree-covered hillsidefacing the valley proves upon closer inspection to be, inthat portion of it immediately adjacent to the house, asuccession of rock… … RESIDENCE OF MRS. PHOEBE A. HEARST is Spanish in character, but it is not of the type with whichwe are generally familiar in California and from which theso-called Mission style has been derived. For Mrs. Hearstsresidence the term Hispano-Moresque would be moreaccurately descriptive. The original…

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