The Patio in Mexico 
THE RELATION OF THE STABLE 
TO THE HOUSE AND PATIO 
building having been added to from time to 
time ever since the days of Cortez. The 
main or central court in the Palace is 131 
feet square, surrounded with arches and 
magnificently ornamented. 
The patio was an important portion of 
the old business houses ot Mexico, serving 
as it did as store-house, receiving, shipping, 
packing and unpacking quarters. In many 
of these massive old structures the patio is 
now utilized as salesrooms and display rooms 
for goods, but there are plenty of business 
houses left where the patio still serves its 
original purpose. 
The traveler, or the sojourner in Mexico, 
receives his most pleasing impressions of the 
patio from the glimpses he receives as he 
passes by, for he is not often favored with an 
interior view of the patio of a true Mexican 
PATIO OF THE JOCKEY CLUB 
MEXICO CITY 
home. But the passing glance reveals enough 
of the exclusive charm of the patio to make 
it very attractive to the home lover. 
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MEXICO CITY 
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