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Mission Revival

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Mission Revival, Mission style
An architectural style popular in the southwestern United States and in Florida from about 1890 to 1930 and beyond; suggestive or imitative of the earlier Mission architecture, although usually much simpler because of the absence of sculptured ornamentation; compare with Spanish Colonial Revival. Buildings in this style are usually characterized by: stucco-finished exterior walls, occasionally with terracotta ornamentation; balconies or balconets; semicircular arches; a roof supported by massive piers with broad arches between them, forming arcaded walkways; multicurved gables; a low-pitched red mission-tile roof; often a hipped roof; open eaves having exposed rafters and a significant overhang; roof ridges topped with a red-tiled protective cap; commonly, dormers; tile-faced bell towers; roof drainage provided by waterspouts that pierce the parapets; typically, double-hung rectangular windows; a main entry door often located within a recessed porch.


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Kingsley Hammett writes in Santa Fe: A Walk Through Time (Gibbs Smith, 2004) that after the library relocated to the corner of Washington Avenue and Marcy Street, the Woman's Board of Trade building, which was designed with a Mission Revival facade, received a "Santa Fe style" restoration by architect John Gaw Meem in 1932.
From last year's New Orleans cottage to this year's 3,500-square-foot Mission revival in the heart of Los Angeles -- the magazine's fourth Idea Home, open to the public through Aug.
Indianapolis--Private Residence in Indianapolis Designer Robert Frist's goal was to transform the interior of this austere Spanish Mission Revival Home into a warm, inviting environment.
 
 
 
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