Spanish Colonial Style Architecture
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The Spanish Colonial Style was an architectural movement that came about in the early 20th century after the opening of the Panama Canal. The movement enjoyed its greatest popularity between 1915 and 1931 and was most often exhibited in single-level detached homes.
Spanish Colonial architecture shares certain elements with the closely-related Mission Revival and Pueblo styles of the West and Southwest. 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, Roman or semi-circular arcades and fenestration, tall, double–hung windows, canvas awnings, and decorative iron trim.
Detractors of the indiscriminate application of this design style often compare homes built in such fashion to Taco Bell restaurants.
Structural form
- Rectangular or L-plan
- Horizontal massing
- Predominately one-story
- Interior or exterior courtyards
- Asymmetrical shape with cross-gables and side wings
A list of structures designed in the Spanish Colonial Style
- Alice Lynch Residence (http://www.laokay.com/lathumb/laphoto/Adams06.jpg) in Los Angeles, California, completed in 1922
- Case de las Capañas (http://www.laokay.com/lathumb/laphoto/scr12.jpg) in Los Angeles, California, completed in 1928
- C.E. Toberman Estate (http://www.laokay.com/lathumb/laphoto/scr01.jpg) in West Hollywood, California, completed in 1924
- Frank H. Upham House (http://www.laokay.com/lathumb/laphoto/LWright210.jpg) in Altadena, California, completed in 1928
- La Casa Nueva (http://www.laokay.com/lathumb/laphoto/Homestead051.jpg) in City of Industry, California, completed in 1927
- William S. Hart Residence (http://www.laokay.com/lathumb/laphoto/Hart22.jpg) in Newhall, California, completed in 1910
