[Interesting architectural album with 18 original photographs of Jazz Age homes built by Mondragon in and around present day Mexico City, including imposing homes of brick & stone, as well as Spanish Style stucco bungalows, many with ornamental ironwork fences, balconies, and gates].

Published by Ave Monte Blanco 43, ca. 1928-1930]., [General Anaya, D.F., Mexico:, 1928

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Oblong 4to. [28 pp (unpaginated)], on thick black card stock, w/ 18 original silver gelatin photographs sized from 2.5 x 3.75 in. up to 5 x 7 in. (majority) tipped-in, or mounted with black corners, some with caption included in the negative at lower fore-edge, a few with ink annotations at fore-edge indicating Mondragon, and the client's name. Contemporary textured gray boards photo album, sewn w/ dark gray-green leather tie at gutter margin through two holes (minor rubbing, scuffing to fore-edges, a couple photos w/ very minor tears at lower corners, slight soiling), still VG exemplar. This intriguing photo album offers an excellent catalogue of several homes built by Eulalio Mondragon in and around Mexico City during the Jazz Age. Based out of his business address in the General Anaya Borough, Mexican Federal District which was created in 1928, Mondragon displays here a number of modest Spanish-style bungalows, with stucco, brick decoration, porches, and elaborate iron fences & gates in front of the homes. A few have distinctive Art Deco elements, reflected in the crenellations along the roof line, as well as architectural features in the low walls in front of the homes, with porches attached. One of the homes was a larger brick & stone house, with large porch, arched windows, and even garage for an automobile, seen dimly in the entrance below the house. One of the homes includes geometric patterns reminiscent of the Ennis House created by Frank Lloyd Wright to emulate a Mayan temple. This album offers an informative depiction of domestic architecture during the turbulent period right after the Mexican Revolution, and at the time of the founding of the National Revolutionary Party in Mexico.

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[Interesting architectural album with 18 original photographs of Jazz Age homes built by Mondragon in and around present day Mexico City, including imposing homes of brick & stone, as well as Spanish Style stucco bungalows, many with ornamental ironwork fences, balconies, and gates].
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[ARCHITECTURE -- MEXICO]. [MONDRAGON, Eulalio].
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Ave Monte Blanco 43, ca. 1928-1930]., [General Anaya, D.F., Mexico:
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1928
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