Esther McCoy Irving Gill 1870-1936 Five California Architects, 1960, Reprinted in Marvin Rand Irving J. Gill: Architect 1870-1936, Gibbs Smith, Publisher: Salt Lake City, UT, Design, Ahde Lahti; Photographs, Marvin Rand, 2006, 238 pp. pp. 219-227, 2006a, 1960, 1933
"There was one last time when Gill's talents in social architecture found an outlet. In 1933 Gutheim was instrumental in arranging to have Gill design a number of cottages for the Office of Indian Affairs as well as a chapel for the Rancho Barona Indian resettlement in Lakeside. He readily accepted the post even though he had to live on the site, design a project to be built by the relatively untrained Indians, and stay on and supervise construction.
"In the small cottages for the Indian resettlement, among his last work, he came full circle returning to the freshness with which he saw his first adobes in California. The little Rancho Barona houses were curiously touching in their simplicity, but the simplicity was of a kind that came from a lifetime of architectural concern.
By 1933, Gill had suffered a second heart attack, but he eagerly accepted the Indian resettlement project for Lakeside. According to a letter in his files from the Department of the Interior, his fee was $540.