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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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self, 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 correspondence isonly theoretical; while its presence on the free end gives an unpleasant effectof a thing incomplete, awaiting subsequent additions. The swimming pooland solarium at Hotel Del Monte is a composition of fine quality. It is tooreserved to be described as familiar; far too interesting to be called monu-mental as the term is generally applied. It is definite in expression and <t^\i1\
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BIRDS-EYE PERSPECTIVE, SWIMMING POOL, HOTEL DEL MONTELewis P. Hobart, Architect appropriate in feeling. Altogether, the inspection of these photographswas like a breath of fresh air blowing into the ofiice. It is commonly assumed that the countenance of the critic is one whichhabitually registers displeasure, and that his first movement, even prior to theopening of his typewriter, is the careful adjustment of a chip to his shoulder.Let me protest against this popular delusion. The critic is really looking outfor a good time as well as anybody else ; only he is seldom given the opportunityfor so pleasant a time as he enjoyed in examining tliese ilUistraiioiis. That,however, is his misfortune rather than his fault. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

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