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HYLAND Francis Underhill had an early interest in stucco and concrete, giving the house a Modernist aura. It is more Palladian villa—with that architect's sparing use of ornament and sovereignty in the matter of proportion—than mansion, grand yet arresting in its simplicity. The firm of Gladding, McBean created a terra-cotta frieze of acanthus columns at the entry, the sort of judicious yet substantial ornament one sees so often in Northern California, as in the work of Julia Morgan at San Simeon. Restoration of