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HOUSE STYLES - California Mission House Style Your starting place for learning the history and features of Mission, or California Mission, house styles, with photos and links.
Architecture Inspired by Spain The traditions of many cultures blended in fanciful Spanish Revival and Mediterranean architecture, popular from 1915 to about 1940.
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue - Ecclesiastical Architect Your starting place for exploring the life and works of Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, who revolutionized church architecture and popularized Hispanic styles.
HOUSE STYLES - Colonial Revival House Style - Colonial Style Architecture Expressing American patriotism and a return to classical architectural styles, Colonial Revival became one of the most popular house styles in the United States. Does your house reflect the Colonial Revival style? Here's how to tell.
Historical Background - Preservation and Repair of Stucco This portion of Preservation Brief Number 22 gives the history of stucco, and explains the methods and materials used for early stucco siding.
Surviving the centuries: discover New Mexico's Spanish colonial art in timeless high road villages, historic, churches, galleries, and a vibrant new museum
At noon on a quiet Sunday in northern New Mexico, villagers gather at El Santuario de Chimayo to pray before a 19th-century gold-leaf altar imported ......(Continue Reading) Creating a mythic past: Spanish-style Architecture in Montana
The Moorish style was the first Spanish architectural style employed in Montana.2 Although rarely associated with Spain today, the Moorish style, one of the most popular architectural fashions of the...(Continue Reading)HOME DIGEST Twists and turns in Colonial Revival story
Forty residences -- from 1781 to the present -- are honored in a new book, The Colonial Revival House (Harry N. Abrams Publishers, $45). Two of the ......(Continue Reading)Puerto Rican revival: the island has embarked on a series of tourism initiatives. (Caribbean & Bahamas).
ON NOVEMBER 9, 1989, the cold war officially ended when the Berlin Wall, 103 miles of concrete and razor wire encircling West Berlin, came down. When ......(Continue Reading)Mutually assured destruction? The RAND building comes out of the cold - Architecture - RAND Corp
Rich and Linda Peters loved the 1929 Spanish colonial revival-style bungalow they bought several years ago, but not its dark, dreary, poorly remodeled ......(Continue Reading)
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