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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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rs shortcomings. The new dispensation offers the chief advantage ofall co-operative plans—mutual benefits. The Apartment House Era Six hundred private d\sellini;s are slmwu to have been torn duwn in XewYork the current year to make room for flats, tenements and apartmenthouses. The private dwelling is becoming a rarity in the metropolis, withprospects that it will become wholly extinct in due time. Economj ofground space demands that six to sixty families must live one over theother, in an allotment of earth space intended for one. Aside from thatconsideration, we suspect that Xew Yorkers are indifferent as to the fate ofthe private home. In the swirl of metropolitan existence they care far morefor those modern comforts which are provided by the steam heated apart-ment than for the home-like environment of the private dwelling. So XewYork becomes one great network of stone and plaster apartments, flats andtenements, presenting something c^f the aspect of a cliff dwellers settlement.
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IMERESTIXG FLAX FOR AX .tPARTMEXr HOVSE. OAKLAXP. CAHFORXIACharles ». McCall, Architect The .Irchilcct and l:ni^iii(\-r 81 New Ideas About Concrete Floors* !.> lk\IM; j. (,ll.l.. Aroliitrct, W\\\ (111 must iR-iiplc dislike ci nK-rctc tli>ors? Iartlv Ijciause \\c arcall slaves U> lialiit. iiartly because cmierete IIimu-s are imt what theyreally ouglit to he. Twenty years asjn I built lor myself a concrete lloor. 1 expected it lobe cold, 1 expected it to be damj). 1 expectctl it to be all the uncomfortablethinjjs people said it would be. I found it warm and dry and all the com-fortable things people had not said it would be. I.est of all, 1 knew itwould never harbor the vermin of sorts that infest old wooden ilooring,mice that scamper at night, or the accidental cat. The charges against the concrete tlt)or are precisely those made yearsago against the cement sidewalk. We had come from tlirt paths where feetrind ct>mfort in the happy medium between dust and mud, and the boar

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