The Architect and engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1917) (14802110033)

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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

Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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uth, and Ilatos Republic in liand. dreaming of his countrys future gov-ernment patterned to an anticpie and lofty standard, Ior books and living, which is mostly housing, go hand in hand—and poli-tics and government follow—classic learning was the culture of the ISthand early 19th centuries, gentlemen of lingland and hrancc, priding them-selves not alone on their Greek and Latin, but ujxin their knowledge of artand architecture as well, and we COlonials followed dutifully in the pathsof our betters. Whatever this knowledge may have been, it was probably inexact. ;indciting from an earlier period, we read in hlvelyns Diary his dcscrijition ofthe long since destroyed myal manor of Nonsuch, done in the lt,iiianmanner, it is obvious that Ndiisuch was not Italian at all. but excellentJacobean. So of the period of which we consider, we probably had a similarintent to follow ohler e.\-emplars and arrived at nnicli the same goal asKing diaries Surveyor. 40 Till-. ARCllirECT ASD liSGlMiliR

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l-RO\r llXIRAXCl. THE ARCHITECT AXD ENGINEER 41 To sum np, our beloved Colonial is hut an attempt at transplantingthe English Renaissance of the Georges, tinctured from necessity to agreater or less degree by the Adana brothers with something somewhatFrench, somewhat of late Rome, and considerably of the Greek of Pompeii.The necessity spoken of was lack of material and of skilled labor, so thatmuch of internal work, such as mantel-iiieces, grates, and fruit swags wasbodily brought from London. The learning thus acquired and the material imported were pouredinto a newer mold, to which our Dutch forebears had something to add. withthe aid of Vignola and Palladio, antiquarians themselves. Necessity, the parent of all architecture. forl)ade the use of carefullv cutstone at all and not much of any other kind. So, as before, in centuries past, a style came into being with countlessoffspring, some bad, some indififerent, but many worthy of earnest con-sideration. We may place this period in

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