Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from House and Garden, Vol. 26: July December, 1914
He sometimes uses the arcade, which has come to be associated in the lay mind with the California missions, but a study of the details that differentiate architectural man ners will Show his arcades and those of the padres widely dissimilar. He may use a Dutch door or a tile roof, but that does not mark his work as Flemish or Florentine. AS a stranger often remarks in two faces a like ness neutralized by many differences, so com ing upon a Gill house for the first time one may be reminded of something seen in old Spain, of a villa in Lombardy, a house in Algiers, an Indian pueblo in the western desert. But closer study reveals essential differences in detail, dissipating the strength of suggested likenesses. In many of these houses the walls, like those of an Indian pueblo, rise sheer and roofless to an abrupt sky-line, and there are courts and terraces similar to those of a pueblo but a Gill house is a far cry from the aboriginal dwelling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
