Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As anyone who made it through third-grade American history may recall, the Brits had a bit of a political and cultural impact on ...

If there was confusion regarding the architectural differences between the styles of English Cottage and French Eclectic, there will be no confusion when it comes to identifying Spanish Revival. The ...

With their red-tile roofs and stucco walls so commonplace that they’ve become part of the landscape, the homes of the Spanish Colonial Revival tapped the climate, local materials and an idealized view ...

The popularity of Spanish Revival can be traced back to the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. The nearly 4 million attendees enjoyed a grand display of Mediterranean-inspired ...

Two very different styles of architecture, both falling under the heading of Colonial Revival, gained popularity in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Some of these building ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." With their roomy size and eye-pleasing symmetry, Colonial-style homes remain one of the most enduring ...

The Panama-California Exposition in 1915 was an unparalleled World’s Fair created ostensibly to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and its first stop at San Diego on the way north up the ...

Atlanta native Ryan Hughes was in fifth grade the first time this stately Spanish Colonial house in the Lenox Park area of Morningside caught his eye. “It has a presence, the way it’s positioned on ...

Colonial houses are our heritage: physical evidence of the people who first traveled to North America and settled here. Today, “Colonial” has come to be a generic mashup of old and new stylistic ...