Features of the Spanish Colonial style include:
Rectangular or L-shaped floor plans
Asymmetrical facades
Low pitched roof with parapet or hipped form
Heavy tiled roofs; little or no overhanging eaves
Arcaded entrances or porches; canvas awnings ...
Spanish Colonial style 1520s-c.1550
Elizabethan architecture (b.1533-d.1603)
Dutch Colonial 1615-1674 (Treaty of Westminster) New England
Palladian architecture 1616-1680 (Jones)
English Baroque 1666 (Great Fire)-1713 (Treaty of Utrecht) ...
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.
 See also: House, Colonial, Roman, Architecture, Ornament
  
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