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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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uggests to me contentedchildren; which is, perhaps, one of the highest as well as one of the rarestpraises which can be accorded a school. The Del Monte Lodge and the swimming pool and sokirium at llolelDel Monte are larger problems, and of greater intrinsic importance ; but thevas well breathe the same freshness and charm. In each case a natural situationof very rare beauty has been handled with delicacy and discretion. The 48 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER inevitable artificiality or formality in the life involved is reflected in a dom-inant note of contrast with the natural scene; not, however, at the expense ofessential harmony. Our California landscapes embody varied and preciousbeauties. In the buildings which even of necessity obtrude upon them theydeserve, though they seldom receive, the best that can be given. These struc-tures under consideration really enhance the qualities of their respective settingsfor the purposes to which they are put. They are nice adaptations of means to
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PLAN, SWIMMING POOL, HOTEL DEL MONTELewis P. Hobart, Architect all the conditions to be met, which is to say, they are real compositions. Thereare in them no unusual or novel elements or details ; only those motifs whichthe progressive working of intelligent experience has pronounced classic.But the familiar material is handled in a way to stimulate genuine pleasure.To mar the pleasure I felt myself, there was but one discordant note, whichI so regretted that I own to having dissimulated in presenting one of thepictures which revealed it objectionably; I trimmed the photograph to obscurethe unpleasant fact. I am therefore the more justified in dragging it forth withthe light of the text. The colonnade along the ocean side of the garden at THE ARCHITECT. AND ENGINEER 49 Del Monte Lodge ends in a small triumphal-arch-like element. This balancesa similar element on the building and toward the opposite end; but the condi-tions of its appearance in each case are so dissimilar that the corr

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