The style “seems like the spirit of California,” because of its ... the glamour and mystery and poetry of the old Spanish days.” An architecture magazine of the time said the style, though ...

Goodhue, after his first red tiles, went on to create the extraordinary baroque mock-Spanish city in San Diego’s Balboa Park for the Panama-California Exposition in 1915 in the heart of what was ...

By naming the style Spanish Colonial Revival, it had the effect of erasing Mexican influence from the architecture of California. When Santa Barbara’s El Paseo debuted in the 1920s, for example ...

Became Southern California’s pre-eminent architectural ... Williams Several variants of Spanish-style architecture make a contribution to the unique flavor of our local landscape.

barely lifts her long-lashed lavender shades on the soul of old Spanish days. . . . Thus the impression of Southern California architecture gained by a sharp-eyed Easterner (Critic Edmund Wilson ...

California Craftsman styles showcasing the state’s rustic arts scene; Spanish architecture to promote our sunny Mediterranean ...

The Santa Barbara Courthouse is one of the buildings that represents how architecture is a tourism draw in the city. Visit Santa Barbara is celebrating California Tourism Month with a presentation ...

a developer who broughtSpanish colonial revival architecture to this seaside city in the1920s. His vision was “a Spanish village by the sea.” His home design, borrowed from the looks of Santa ...

Overcoming these challenges has required an ongoing collaborative effort among engineers, architects ... to San Diego—stand as symbols of California's Spanish colonial past.

In California, there's certainly no shortage ... known as the "American Riviera" due to its temperate weather, ...