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The simple home (1904)

Keeler, Charles Augustus, 1871-1937 · San Francisco, P. Elder and company · leaf 48

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how anyfair-minded student of architecture can continue to pressthe point. Personally I have no wish to argue in favor of eitherroof pitch for California. It seems to me to be largely amatter of individual taste, to be determined by the prefer-ence of the builder for Gothic or Classic ideals. There… … THE BUILDING OF THE HOME The Mansard roof, with flat top enclosed with a railing,need not be discussed in this connection, since it is happilyout of fashion and seems destined to remain so. Anotherform of flat roof — that characteristic of Egypt and Pales-tine— is, on the contrary, quite…

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