House and Garden 
O UNION 
“El Fureidis” is happy in its topography, 
being an almost continuous slope from the 
most northerly limit to the little barranca or 
gully at the southern confines which, in the 
spring, is a roaring mountain stream. Upon 
the highest point, as may be seen by a refer¬ 
ence to the plan, only a few rods from the 
edge of the domain, will be placed the house, 
of which as yet only the rectangular court 
has been laid out in the rough, and to which 
court or patio , to give it its Spanish name, 
was the common property of Moor and 
Christian in the Gothic Period and was 
brought over to Mexico by the earliest con¬ 
querors, at once making its way northward 
in the wake of the mission priests. If any 
further justification were needed for this re¬ 
turn to the ancient model, the general char¬ 
acter and conformation of the landscape, 
which is classical to a degree, would furnish it. 
THE PAVILION AT THE END OF THE ALLEY OF POOLS 
The side appearing above overlqoks a stream which is here widened into a natural pool 
four trees of different varieties have been re¬ 
moved. The house itself follows very 
closely the ancient classic model, being a 
rectangle of somewhat more than a hundred 
feet surrounding just such a court as may be 
traced in the ruins of Pompeii, and which 
has come down to the Californian in an un¬ 
broken tradition. Taken by the Roman 
colonists to Hispania and meeting with no 
modification of any importance since, the 
The gardens, as well, are in the main 
classic, though they are, perforce, subject to 
one important modification. The lack of 
water is the only drawback to the production 
of satisfactory gardens on the Pacific Coast, 
and this drawback both owner and architects 
deliberately set themselves to overcome. To 
this end Mr. Gillespie and one of the firm 
employed by him made a journey through 
Persia, there finding most beautifully de- 
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