Roland Coate: Cowlishaw ranch house (Nogales, Ariz.)

The owners of a successful furniture business, Frank and Ruth Wilmot Cowlishaw commissioned Coate to design a large ranch house and stables for their 640 acre working ranch in Arizona. The house was L shaped and centered around a pool in the back of the house. It is a blend of many different styles, and quite different from Coates' other commissions. The rambling design incorporated many different levels, heights, and masses of various parts of the building to create a single structure that gives the appearance of many different buildings.

Roland E. Coate, Sr., architect

Roland Eli Coate, Sr. papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

1934

Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. University of California Regents.