Southern California is home to an underrated yet charming town, brimming with olive trees, diverse wineries, and vistas that ...

Influenced by the Spanish Colonial architecture revived for the Panama-California Exposition San Diego’s Balboa Park in 1915, Clark began designing what he called “Early California” or ...

A hotel in the heart of Ojai, California, is returning to its roots after a storied history for the last half century. Hotel ...

Goodhue, after his first red tiles, went on to create the extraordinary baroque mock-Spanish ... California, and Graham quotes the great East Coast cultural critic Edmund Wilson writing as early ...

Spanish eclectic style developed in the early 20th century and ... interest in the richness of Spanish architecture. The rapidly growing population in California easily adopted the architecture ...

when Spanish-influenced architecture swept through California and other parts of the country. It spurred renewed interest in 16th- and 17th-century Spanish and early California mission furniture ...

Many Orange County tract homes at the time were a juxtaposition of the organic movement with the Spanish styling that was so prominent in early California architecture. The use of siding and ...

The earliest permanent buildings were designed by Lincoln Rogers, who studied architecture ... the best of old Spanish Mediterranean vernacular with the optimism of Southern California.

It is easy to assume that Mission-style architecture ... part of California’s heritage. Any fourth-grade student building a mission model can tell you that the missions are what early California ...

As a map of early Santa Barbara shows, little, if any, trace of the previous Pueblo/Mission era could be found. In fact, even important Spanish ... architecture styles. This, coupled with ...

“And I wanted to capture that early-California feel.” To achieve this, designer Jeanette Kyser combined an eclectic mix of rustic and natural elements that hint at a Spanish influence with new ...

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 ...