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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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is section of the village, and we have given specialconsideration to these features. 62 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER Typical House Designs The designs adopted for this community have been made with the idea ofproviding a practical, attractive, and healthy home of fireproof construction,built of permanent materials. We have been influenced in the designs adopted,by the topography of the land, the climate, customs of the people to be housed,and the community life and spirit which must be developed in an isolated com-munity in order to provide for anything beyond mere existence ; and alsoby the need of suiting a standardized concrete construction. (Precast con-crete slabs, Unit Method.) The houses are generally of a long and narrow type, as the steep groundslopes offer a practical limitation of approximately 20 feet in the width of ahouse in order to reduce expense in further excavation or filling work. Theyare two stories high, the first floor containing the living rooms, the second floor
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DETACHED HOUSES IN AMERICAN TOWN, MINING TOWN NEAR JEROME, ARIZONA Herding & Boyd, Architects the bedrooms, sleeping porch and bath. A basement is provided, running thefull width of the house and approximately one-half of the depth on the down-hill side, as this area provides a natural basement, in most cases without excava-tion. The houses range from three, four, five to six rooms, all being providedwith bath, a front porch, and many of the houses have been designed withsleeping porches. The houses in the officials section are to be of individual design in accor-dance with the particular location and type of house required. These are30 in number, all detached, of bungalow type. They are grouped around ahilltop at the east end of the town. The center is leveled and developedinto a playground with easy access from the town. They all are locatedto offer an unobstructed view into valleys below. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 63 Revised House Designs We present the original designs submit

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