Mission Revival Style architecture
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The Mission Revival Style was an architectural movement that began in the late 19th Century and drew inspiration from the early Spanish missions in California. The movement enjoyed its greatest popularity between 1890 and 1915, though numerous modern residential, commercial, and institutional structures (particularly schools and railroad depots) display this instantly-recognizable architectural style.
All of California's missions shared certain design characteristics, owing both to the limited selection of building materials available to the founding padres and an overall lack of advanced construction experience. Each installation utilized massive walls with broad, unadorned surfaces and limited fenestration, wide, projecting eaves, and low-pitched clay tile roofs. Other features included long, arcaded corridors, piered arches, and curved gables. Exterior walls were coated with plaster (stucco) to shield the adobe bricks beneath from the elements.
Each of these elements are replicated, to varying degrees, in Mission Revival buildings. Modern construction materials and building practices render these characteristics largely cosmetic, however.
- Plymouth Rock was a state of mind.
- So were the California Missions.
- Charles Fletcher Lummis
- The Spanish Pioneers, 1929
- Give me neither Romanesque nor Gothic;
- much less Italian Renaissance,
- and least of all English Colonial —
- this is California — give me Mission.
- Anonymous
[edit] A list of structures designed in the Mission Revival Style
- Francis Marion Stokes Fourplex in Portland, Oregon, completed in 1926
- Burlingame Railroad Station in Burlingame, California, completed in 1894 — the first permanent structure constructed in the Mission Revival Style
- Canoga Mission Gallery in Canoga Park, California, completed in 1936
- Mission Inn in Riverside, California, completed in 1902
- Fred Harvey's Hotel Castañeda in Las Vegas, New Mexico, completed in 1898 (demolished in 1970)
- San Gabriel Civic Auditorium in San Gabriel, California, completed in 1927
- Santa Fe Railway Depot in San Juan Capistrano, California, completed in 1894
- Union Station in San Diego, California, completed in 1915
- Villa Rockledge in Laguna Beach, California, completed in 1935
- Wattles Mansion in Hollywood, California, completed in 1907
[edit] References
- Gustafson, Lee and Phil Serpico (1999). Santa Fe Coast Lines Depots: Los Angeles Division. Acanthus Press, Palmdale, CA. ISBN 0-88418-003-4.
- Jones, R. (1991). The History of Villa Rockledge. American National Research Institute, Laguna Beach, CA.
- Weitze, K. (1984). California's Mission Revival. Hennessy & Ingalls, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. ISBN 0-912-158-89-1.
- Yenne, Bill (2004). The Missions of California. Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA. ISBN 1-59223-319-8.
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