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top and the magnificent outlook would make 

 it to me personally a far more attractive dwell- 

 ing-place than the hot, dusty plains. More- 

 over, the present Hopi house, with its thick roof, 

 is cooler and pleasanter than a tin-roofed house. 

 I believe it w^ould be far wiser gradually to 

 develop the Hopi house itself, making it more 

 commodious and convenient, rather than to 

 abandon it and plant the Indian in a brand- 

 new government-built house, precisely like some 

 ten million other cheap houses. The Hopi 

 architecture is a product of its own environ- 

 ment; it is as picturesque as anything of the kind 

 which our art students travel to Spain in order 

 to study. Therefore let us keep it. The Hopi 

 architecture can be kept, adapted, and de- 

 veloped just as we have kept, adapted, and 

 developed the Mission architecture of the South- 

 west — with the results seen in beautiful Le- 

 land Stanford University. The University of 

 New Mexico is, most wisely, modelled on these 

 pueblo buildings; and the architect, has done 

 admirable work of the kind by adapting Indian 

 architectural ideas in some of his California 

 houses. The Hopi is himself already thus de- 

 veloping his house; as I have said, he has put 

 in glass windows and larger doors; he is fur- 

 nishing it; he is making it continually more 



