. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . te 5 84 Tlie Architect and Ruiimcer. The Architect and Eiii^itiecr 85 beloiii;- to the semi-tropical land. These same houses would certainly lookartificial and amusingly uncomfortable and out of place in the luist; Initthey essential!) belong to the land of sunshine. The contour, coloring and history of a country naturally inlluetice itsarchitecture. The old wooden Colonial houses of the East, shaded by n(jbleelms, with their attendant lanes and roads outlined by stone walls, perfectpictures of home beauty; the stone houses of Pe
. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . te 5 84 Tlie Architect and Ruiimcer. The Architect and Eiii^itiecr 85 beloiii;- to the semi-tropical land. These same houses would certainly lookartificial and amusingly uncomfortable and out of place in the luist; Initthey essential!) belong to the land of sunshine. The contour, coloring and history of a country naturally inlluetice itsarchitecture. The old wooden Colonial houses of the East, shaded by n(jbleelms, with their attendant lanes and roads outlined by stone walls, perfectpictures of home beauty; the stone houses of Pennsylvania, beautiful ofcolor, stately, eloquent of substantial affluence and generous hospitality;and the adobe houses of the Arizona Indians formed of the earth into struc-tures so like the surrounding ledges and buttes in shape that they canscarcely be told from them, and which are triumphs of protective, harmo-nious building, are familiar types of buildings characteristic of their locality. California is influenced, and rightly so, by the Spanish Missions as wellas by the rich coloring and th
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