Home of D. Edson Smith, Built by Mrs. D. Edson Smith

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12510 Home of D. Edson Smith, Santa Anna, Cal. Built by Mrs. D. Edson Smith.

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DOST OOOOOO COPYRIGHTED 1908 ‘BY D. EDSON SMITH. MADE IN U. S. A HIS is, in some respects the most unique house in the world. There is no other like it. With the ex- ception of frame, roof and floors, it was built entirely, inside and out by the hands of Ellen Frances Smith, now past 70 years old. She has been five years in building it. She built two chimneys, with a good fire-place under one, mixing all the mortar, and carrying and placing every brick and stone in the entire structure. She fitted the doors and win- dows, partitioned, ceiled, clothed, paper- ed and painted the inside in a neat and comfortable manner, with unsually con- venient closets and cupboards of her own designing and building. The outside con- sists of cobblestones, seashells, imitation brick, galvanized iron, covered with a preparation of abalone sand of her own devising, pulverized glass, sanded wood, painted glass pictures, here and there. inlaid with queer bits of ancient and modern bric-a-brac that nobody else ever found use for. She has been twen. ty-seven years in collecting the shells and pebbles from the Orange County coast and Catalina Island. She has a rare gift of love for such work, and this has been her recreationi the past few years. She is in the best of health (1909), and is ambitious to Murther gratify her taste for the unique. brick, galvanized iron, covered with a wre. Aller gulēcienne Corcorac, Calif. CHICAGO