Identifier: architectenginee1030sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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/>*«(.! Av Mnillll, RKSIDENCL OF ROBERT B. HENDERSON, HILLSBOROUGH, CALHORNLA.GORDON B. KAtlFMANN, ARCHITECT June, ic)3l) ARCHITECT AND EINGINEER, 85 ness, while the washing of the crystal chan-delier, the sweeping of the carpets, the pe-riodic cleaning of the china closet and curiocabinet, were all Sisyphean operationswhich broke the backs and the hearts of awhole generation of decent menials. Thishouse had, from the standpoint of today,only one virtue: in spite of its clutter andlitter it was still spacious. There was spaceto breathe in, if not i;oom to move aroundin. But owing to fantastic notions as towhat constituted hominess, comfort, andbeauty, such houses were little better thankitchen middens, and the amount of use-less labor they entailed upon generationsof housewives and servants makes one gaspand sweat to think about. The old-fashioned house was underminedby three different factors. The first of thesewas the gradual development of taste.Strange as it may seem, this cau

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