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Mediterranean Revival

Mediterranean Revival Styles

Spanish colonial Revival

Spanish Colonial Revival Style became popular primarily as a result of the San Diego Panama-California Exposition of 1915. The style was extremely popular in the 1920's, the Highland Park City Hall and Highland Park Village are evidence of this.

Elements of the style are:
1) Very low-pitched roofs with little overhang
2) Clay tile roof
3) Stucco exterior or blonde brick exterior
4) Windows with round arches at the top

Churrigueresque Ornamentation

Many finer-quality Spanish Colonial homes incorporate an intricate, exaggerated, almost capricious style of surface decoration known as "the Churrigueresque."

This style of decoration is named for the Churriguera family of Salamanca, Spain.

Churrigueresque refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 1600s and was used up to about 1750, marked by extreme, expressive and florid decorative detailing, normally found around and above the entrance on the main facade of a building. This ornamentation was used in California and other Spanish colonies in the New World, even after it had fallen from favor in Spain.

This small home has the white stucco exterior, round-topped windows, and low-pitched clay tile roof which are common elements of Spanish Colonial Revival style.

This home built in the 1920s has light colored brick veneer rather than stucco on the exterior. The substitution of brick for stucco is often seen in Dallas.