Spanish Revival Roofs

Elaborate tile work applied relief ornamentation and wrought iron.

Spanish revival roofs.

Porched roofs spanish revival style homes are influenced by spanish colonial architecture of earlier centuries. North palm beach florida. Peter johansky getty images cropped america s spanish houses have a long history and can incorporate many styles. Spanish colonial revival architecture is characterized by a combination of detail from several eras of spanish baroque spanish colonial moorish revival and mexican churrigueresque architecture the style is marked by the prodigious use of smooth plaster wall and chimney finishes low pitched clay tile shed or flat roofs and terracotta or.

One of the styles best adapted and seen throughout the southwest is the spanish revival. Spanish style homes are found throughout the southwestern united states and in florida. Instead these early 20th century homes combine. Typical features include a low pitched roof with little or no eave overhang a red tiled roof perhaps a prominent rounded arch over a door window or porch a stucco wall surface and usually an asymmetrical façade.

The mission revival came first one result of a preservation movement that had begun in the 1880s. Architects and historians often use the word eclectic to describe architecture that mixes traditions. On the flat roof massing types barrel mission tiles and decora tive parapet walls are used as accents on the front façades. These homes all have similar architecture are made from local materials and feature small windows ornate archways thick walls and the classic wooden beam roofs with which most people are familiar.

Every one i have come across has been unique and well constructed with lots of character and charm. This type of architecture was born as a result of the panama california exposition and became a u s. For more photos of spanish revival on flickr click here. A spanish eclectic house is not exactly spanish colonial or mission or any particular spanish style.

Richmond spanish revival smooth flat stucco walls sculpted wall elements to transi. The spanish revival roofs are tile typically barrel mission tile. Style movement from 1915 to 1931. As a fan and owner of a 1927 spanish colonial revival home i can t get enough of them.