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Vol. XI 
FEBRUARY, 1907 
No. 2 
“SUNNYCREST” 
A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOME AND ITS GARDEN 
By CHARLES FREDERICK HOLDER 
T HE traveler in the United States, particularly 
in the country and in many suburban dis¬ 
tricts of the Middle West, often wonders at 
the lack of originality in the homes and gardens ol 
the people. The architecture is ornate, tremendous, 
commonplace, and there is little in the average 
small town, East or West, to commend itself to the 
artistic mind. The writer has wondered at this 
and considers it can hardly be prevented. In new 
towns, settled by pioneers, there is often a lack of 
taste and money. Every man is his own architect 
and crude ideas run riot. In towns of a better class 
the evidence of the carpenter, who imagines he is an 
architect, is found, and it is only when these towns 
Copyright, 1907, by The John C. Winston Co. 
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