A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 523
iiii tlie borders ofMexico i.s euiitaiiiol almost the entire range ofalwriginal American architecture. At one endof the .scale are shelters of the rudest kind, and atthe other the really impressive and extr.iordinarystone ruins of Yucatan. In the wide internalsare clift-<lwellings, houses of… … Mexico: Fic. toward the south, till in Yucatan and contigu-ous regions the majority of the important con-structions are found on artificial substructures.In the extreme north are the great cajon houses,exemplified in the Cassis Grandes niins (thoughstone wius also used there), and in the…
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