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ing and a score of months of continuous labor the castle, with stucco 

 sides, and roof and towers of tile, at last crowned the hill, welcoming 

 guests and owner through archway, up the broad stairway, and into 

 its hospitable halls. Extravagance in paneled wainscot and beamed 

 ceiling ran riot, as in leaded lights, arch-windowed turrets, and the 

 copper-flashed, tiled roof, viewed from the lookout of which Buena 

 Vista seemed like a miniature city. 



BUENA VISTA. 



I believe that Tennyson, with his love for tile, as against 

 "slated ugliness," would have appreciated that roof, though it will 

 be decades before it takes on its northern slope the moss-grown 

 shades that pleased the poet. One can, of course, use tile in much 

 less glaring colors, and in so doing span a century. 



In Buena Vista were picture windows so large and heavy that 

 they could not be conveniently opened, a remembered lesson to me. 

 When I again tackled 8x8 foot picture windows they swung on pivots 

 inserted in top and bottom or on either side. Fortunately, windows 

 were so numerous in Buena Vista that stagnant air was unknown. 



Hardware in the reception room was gold plated; this was not 

 extravagant and never needed polishing. 



Yes, it's a scrawny, uninteresting apple orchard, but you will 

 see how in landscaping the east side of Hillcrest House, I used these 

 old apple trees as a foil to the big building. 



