HE home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mavorick, on 
Alamo Heights, is built on the edge of a precipitous 
incline overlooking the Olmos Valley, commanding a 
beautiful view of surrounding hill country with the 
quaintest, most picturesque, and with one exception the old- 
est, city in the United States. Mr. Harvey L. Page was the 
architect and designer of this simple bungalow. Giant live 
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The porches are of fieldstone 
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The cobblestone fireplace and inglenook of the living-room 
oaks, pecan, laurel and elm trees surround this home, and in 
due season roses, palms, bananas and other tropical plants 
and vines that grow and bloom like magic here will add 
their beauty. 
The architect found the material for his building close at 
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hand; the galleries, columns and large arch marking the 
entrance are of fieldstone. ‘The walls are rough-cast plaster 
filled in with rusty house-tank gravel, while the woodwork 
throughout is Texas pine stained a rich Mission brown. 
The rough plaster walls of the interior are treated with 
Cabot’s shingle stains, the walls of the living-room, with 
its cobblestone fireplace and inglenook paved with red brick, 
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being a soft mossy green, the dining-room red and _ hall 
yellow, with ivory ceilings throughout. 
The experiment of using these transparent roof stains 
on plaster has proved to be a great success, and a softness 
and transparent richness is obtained with one coat that no 
