January, 1920 
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WetBter & Stevens 
MODERNIZED MISSION 
If it is fitting to adapt English and French archi¬ 
tectural designs to the American environment, 
even more fitting is it to use the native mission 
style that once was the glory of California and 
the southwest. It is statable for a house and, in 
this instance, has been used sticcessfully. The 
residence is near Seattle, the home of C. D. Stimp- 
son. Esq. The rounded arch door, the cloister, 
the brick paths, the touch of exposed timber, the 
wide overhanging eaves, the rough plaster walls 
of the house built around a courtyard—these ele¬ 
ments combine to make a pleasant, livable mod¬ 
ernizing of an ancient native style. The archi¬ 
tect of the house was Kirtland Cutter 
