. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . e elasticvillas, has an added value in those parts of the United States where winteris wont to strip the country of all its greenery. A garden with evergriis not so bleak in winter, and such a villa otters itself as a vacation placein the midwinter as well as the midsummer holidays. Partly for this reason the Italian villa has remained more truly Italianin the East than in California, where one would naturally expect to findthe truer counterpart. California is often likened to Italy, but as a matterof fact in California nature is
. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . e elasticvillas, has an added value in those parts of the United States where winteris wont to strip the country of all its greenery. A garden with evergriis not so bleak in winter, and such a villa otters itself as a vacation placein the midwinter as well as the midsummer holidays. Partly for this reason the Italian villa has remained more truly Italianin the East than in California, where one would naturally expect to findthe truer counterpart. California is often likened to Italy, but as a matterof fact in California nature is so insistently luxuriant, with any small en-couragement from man. that no one has the heart to deny her even forthe sake of a truly Italian villa. Of course, in California the Spanish style of architecture is the prev-alent note in both town and country, but there are a few villas whichessentially Italian in their charm of vista, harmony of house and garden—everything, in fact, but the negation of nature. The Italian cypresses, in The Architect and Engineer. Cram, Goodh: The Gillespie Villa, at Montecito, near Santa Ba& Ferguson, New York, Architects Myron Hun California: Angeles, Supe ug Architect rows of military regularity, lose something of their formality when screenedby the portiere boughs of a pepper tree, the clipped edge is less austerewith a rose vine clambering over it, and orange and lemon trees wont staydwarfed enough for earthen vases. Altogether the Italian villa as foundin California has no exact counterpart in Italy, unless it be in the lakeregions where nature seems less nigardly than farther south. Perhapsit was because nature was loth to give that the ancient Romans resortedto art in the construction of their villas. One of the most interesting country places in California is the Cillespievilla at Montecito. near Santa Barbara. While it varies widely in manyrespects, perhaps none other in this country has been conceived more trulyin the spirit of the anci
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