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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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Silhouette of Palazzo Vecchio. FlorenceFrom a drawing by H, G, Simpson The Architect and F.nginecr 63
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Tlw Cathedral, nurham, England The Skyline of San Francisco—An Opportunity* r.y HORACE G. SIMPSOX. .\rcliilect + WHO that has traveled abroad and has viewed the hill-towns of the OldWorld with their wonderful silhouettes can fail to be impressed,upon returning to San Francisco, with the opportunity which weha\e here? Who, having seen Amboise, and Chinon, and Azay-le-Rideau.l)ut is pained by the vast unlovely bulk of the buildings which are robbingour liills of their native beauty and putting nothing of luan-niade beauty totake its place? To such it must be evident that we have lost and are losingan asset of beauty and of civic distinction such as few cities possess, itseems to nie that altogether too mucii talk is spent upon our natural advan-tages and too littleupon what we are do-ing and are going todo to preserve and en-hance them. An un-lovely town on a fea-tureless srte is unfor-tunate, but upon sucha site as San Fran-ciscos it is a crime—it is worse than acrime ; it is a blu

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