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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 
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, 
body color could give. The ceiling beams of the living 
room are slightly arched or cambered, which gives a great 
feeling of satisfaction. The dining-room fireplace and 
hearth are of Texas vitrified paving brick with joints raked 
far back. The simple mantelshelf is suspended by wrought 
iron chains from the ceiling beams. The architect has used 
simple barn strap hinges, painted Hat black, with good effect 
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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 
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built where clients and architect worked in more perfect 
harmony and accord from start to finish. It takes three 
factors to make a successful building: a good owner, a good 
architect and a good builder, and do not make the mistake 
of neglecting to supply any one of the trio. 
The outside dimensions of this bungalow are fifty-seven 
feet by seventy-three feet, and the eaves project six feet. 
Fireplace of Texas vitrified paying brick in the dining-room 
on the doors, which are simply home-made V-beaded two- 
panel. 
The owners are thoroughly artistic young people and 
have displayed exquisite taste in their fixtures and fur- 
nishings as far as they have gone, and never was a home 
It was completed in a most substantial and satisfactory man- 
ner within a cost of five thousand seven hundred dollars. 
There is not a molding used in the design, and the bed- 
room walls are daintily papered and the woodwork done in 
white with pole brass trim. 
