Style
Spanish Colonial and Mission Revival
Thick white stucco or adobe walls, red clay tile roofs, round arches, arcaded walkways, a curving shaped gable or a bell gable instead of a tower.
- When
- Spanish missions: 1600s to early 1800s; Mission Revival: c. 1890 to 1930
- Where
- The U.S. Southwest and California, and Spanish America; the Revival across the U.S.
- Tell it apart
- Baroque fronts in Europe and Latin America also curve, but in carved stone with columns; Mission fronts are plain stucco with the curve in the outline.
The tells
- Thick plastered walls, often white
- Red clay tile roofs
- A curved shaped gable or a bell gable (espadaña)
- Round arches and arcaded walkways
- Bell towers with domed tops