SPANISH COLONIAL REVIVAL STYLE ARCHITECTURE

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The 'Spanish Colonial Revival Style' was a United States architectural movement that came about in the early 20th century after the opening of the Panama Canal and the overwhelming success of the novel ''Ramona''. Based on the Spanish Colonial style architecture that dominated in the early Spanish colonies of both North and South America, Spanish Colonial Revival updated these forms for a new century. The movement enjoyed its greatest popularity between 1915 and 1931 and was most often exhibited in single-level detached homes.
Spanish Colonial Revival architecture shares many elements with the very closely-related Mission Revival and Pueblo styles of the West and Southwest, and is strongly informed by the same Arts & Crafts Movement that was behind those architectural styles. Characterized by a combination of detail from several eras of Spanish and Mexican architecture, the style is marked by the prodigious use of smooth plaster (stucco) wall and chimney finishes, low-pitched clay tile, shed, or flat roofs, and terra cotta or cast concrete ornaments. Other characteristics typically include small porches or balconies, Roman or semi-circular arcades and fenestration, wood casement or tall, double–hung windows, canvas awnings, and decorative iron trim.

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Structural form

A list of structures designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style

References

See also

Structural form

★ Rectangular or L-plan

★ Horizontal massing

★ Predominantly one-story

★ Interior or exterior courtyards

★ Asymmetrical shape with cross-gables and side wings

A list of structures designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style

★ Casa Dracaena (George Washington Smith house) completed in 1918.

★ Alice Lynch Residence in Los Angeles, California, completed in 1922

★ Casa de las Campañas in Los Angeles, California, completed in 1928

★ C.E. Toberman Estate in West Hollywood, California, completed in 1924

★ Frank H. Upham House in Altadena, California, completed in 1928

★ La Casa Nueva in City of Industry, California, completed in 1927

★ Serralles Castle in Ponce, Puerto Rico, completed in the 1930s

★ William S. Hart Residence in Newhall, California, completed in early 1920s

★ Gaylord Suites in San Francisco, California, completed in 1928

★ Randolph Air Force Base (various structures) near San Antonio, Texas, designed in 1929

★ Hollywood, Homewood, Alabama, a 1926 residential development in Homewood, Alabama

★ El Capitan Theatre, Hollywood (built in 1928)

★ Death Valley Ranch, also known as Scotty's Castle, a landmark in Death Valley National Park, which was begun in 1922 and had construction on the original design continue sporadically as late as 1943.

★ Scripps College in Claremont, California, a women's college established in 1926.

References

★ California's Mission Revival, Weitze, K., , , Hennessy & Ingalls, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, 1984, ISBN 0-912158-89-1

See also

★ Mediterranean Revival Style architecture

★ Mission Revival Style architecture