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Adobe House Style. First built by the native Pueblo people of the American Southwest, adobe style homes are named for their smooth clay brick walls which work to absorb desert heat.
What is an adobe style house? Learn all about the origins behind this Southwestern style, and how it endures today. Skip to main content. Subscriptions; Animals. Business. Fitness. Food. Games ...
From Colonial to modern, see pictures of architectural house styles in your area, across the country or around the world. Learn more about their history. The 25 Most Popular Architectural House Styles
The Pueblo Revival style or Santa Fe style is a regional architectural style of the Southwestern United States, which draws its inspiration from Santa Fe de Nuevo México's traditional Pueblo architecture, the Spanish missions, and Territorial Style. The style developed at the beginning of the 20th century and reached its greatest popularity in ...
Pueblo - Referring to both a certain style of Puebloan architecture and groups of people themselves, the term pueblo is used in architectural terms to describe single-story or multistory buildings made of coursed stone or adobe, and occasionally jacal. Usually these buildings were plastered with adobe both inside and outside.
Monterey Colonial style house at Rancho Petaluma Adobe. Monterey Colonial is an architectural style developed in Alta California (today's US state of California when under Mexican rule). Although usually categorized as a sub-style of Spanish Colonial style, the Monterey style is native to the post-colonial Mexican era of Alta California.
The original Pueblo style was based on the Anasazi people, [1] who began building square cliff dwellings around 1150 CE, featuring subterranean chambers and circular ceremonial rooms. [2] [1] Over time, Pueblo architecture evolved into the construction of permanent, angular homes made from limestone blocks or adobe—a mixture of clay and water ...
A wooden house in Tartu, Estonia. This is a list of house types. Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or single-family detached homes and various types of attached or multi-family residential dwellings. Both may vary greatly in scale and the amount of accommodation provided.