Spanish Colonial

Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture
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Like many Spanish Colonial buildings in St. Augustine, Florida, the González-Alvarez House is made using coquina, a sedimentary rock composed of shell fragments.
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Spanish Colonial Revival
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The Spanish colonial revival style was very popular for gas stations, park structures, and churches during the 1920s and 1930s when the new building material of stucco was fashionable.

Spanish Colonial Revival
Spanish Colonial is the most decorative of the Spanish styles, and its ornament covers a wide range of source materials from Moorish to Renaissance and Byzantine.

coquina - A material used with early Spanish Colonial styled buildings. It is made of limestone made of shell aggregate the Spanish discovered in 1583.
clerestory - the row of large windows in a church, basilica, or cathedral.

When that section had set, the boards were raised a level and the process repeated. Used as a kind of cement to coat Spanish Colonial architecture. Early Spanish Colonial homes in St.

Landmark houses in this style are rare outside of Florida and the Southwest where Spanish Colonial building occurred. However, in the related Mission style which preceded the Revival movement, there are examples throughout the country.
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