Keeler, Charles Augustus, 1871-1937 · San Francisco, P. Elder and company · leaf 60
anish missionaries while missingevery vital element in their buildings. The modern struc-ture in Mission style is built of wood, either completelycovered with plaster or with exposed wood painted to imitateit. Many features of masonry construction, such as roundpillars covered with stucco, arches… … THE BUILDING OF THE HOME well enough for a worlds fair, which is confessedly but afleeting show, but it is utterly unworthy as the home of anyhonest man. The Spanish missionaries did their work in adobe, brick,tile and stone. Much of it was covered with plaster andwhitewashed. The charm of the low,…
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