Identifier: architectenginee2210sanf (find matches)
Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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fect; it comes in pale tones. Each length .>( paper ternwith a crown frieze. These Friezes arc thoroughly Dutch in charaand are of fruit motifs; walls treated with these papers arc most beautiful.The paper costs $1.50 a roll, two crowns coming in ea< h The parlor is the most difficult room in the house to deal willused for only formal occasions and as a reception room, it can be treated ina formal way; but, if it is used for ever) day life, the walk shoultreated like those of a living-room. \ parlor can be decorated differentlyfrom the other rooms, white painl generallj being preferred, even if thewoodwork all over the house i- stained, or of dark natural toneof the past are the parish parlors of a few years ago when the .paneled in cheap paper, and divided by narrow molding in imitation ofI u neb walls. If a panel parlor is desired, the wall- can be covered withwhite paini. and real wooden moldings laid on the walls, di\ iding thencorrect sections. 42 The Architect and Engineer
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The Architect and Engineer 43 Reinforced Concrete Bridges, with SpecificDescriptions By W. P. DAY, C. E. Dl RING the lasl few years the proportion oi bridges that have been built, in comparison with steel and combination bridges, hasmaterially advanced, and the success attendant upon their use bidsfair to increase the proportion. Traveling the county highways in thisState a few years ago, it was the exception rather than the rule to cross abridge made entirely of concrete and reinforcing steel. Everybody isfamiliar with the inadequately braced pony trusses fabricated of steel andtimber, and their unsound condition after a few years of usage and ofexposure to the elements. In point of years of service the steel bridjsurely an improvement upon the combination, but in order to makethe steel bridge of reasonably long life it must be carefully attended to.Unless painted at comparatively frequent intervals, the steel corrodes ; thetimber floor is subject to great wear and consequent renewal

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