Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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d of glaring poppiesthat are a mass of yellow blossom by the second yearsgrowth. The Gringo, not content with gobbling California fromits Spanish inhabitants, must needs gobble their architectural left for anything so practical and lasting as a roof to coverhim. He was accustomed to scatter his silver by the handfulat every fandango and wedding, and his bank account neverwarranted a handsome home. His follower, who, accord-ing to our custom, is well content with bestowing a do/ensilver spoons or a rose bowl upon the average wedding hasoften put a neat fortune into his so-called adobe house. Thegreat majority of the wealthy home makers of Californiaare building in this style, and spending in that building sumsthat would make the old Padres gasp could they see whithertheir example has led. Los Angeles, the southern city of theAngels, shows Mission homes on every residence street. Thefamous Orange Grove Avenue of Pasadena, that Mecca ofmidwinter summer seekers, is lined with these modern
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An Altadena Residence Built of Stone and Cement ideas also—and of course he has done what the Americanhas not always done, improved upon those ideas. The firstSpanish monks, headed by the long dead and honored FatherJunipero Serra, built the adobe Missions and taught the peo-ple to build homes for themselves in like manner. The stylewas durable, they said, and well adapted to the climate. TheAmerican caught the ideas of durability and suitability andproceeded forthwith to carry out the old Mission scheme ofarchitecture in his own way. The result was a wonderful andbeautiful array of Mission houses as they are called—nowthe typical homes of the Golden State. The extravagant Castilian of early days had little money dobes. Santa Barbara, Redlands, San Diego, Monterey,and of late San Francisco, have blossomed into this gay styleof building. The modern architects have long since departed from theseverity into which the monks disciplined their Moorisharchitecture. The Moor taught the Sp

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