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Both houses were designed by Gustave Umbdenstock, a French architect who had studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. The grand staircase was built in the French Second Empire Style . On the main floor, the staircase is preceded by a portal of paired columns, the shafts carved in a single piece of Bianco Carrara marble imported from Italy ...
Casa del Herrero (also known as the Steedman Estate) is a historic house museum and botanical garden located in Montecito near Santa Barbara, California.It was designed by George Washington Smith, and is considered one of the finest examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in the United States of America. [3]
The Rizal Shrine in Calamba is an example of bahay na bato.. Báhay na bató (Filipino for "stone house"), also known in Visayan languages as baláy na bató or balay nga bato, and in Spanish language as Casa de Filipina is a type of building originating during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
The Casa de Estudillo, also known as the Estudillo House, is a historic adobe house in San Diego, California, United States.It was constructed in 1827 by José María Estudillo and his son José Antonio Estudillo, early settlers of San Diego and members of the prominent Estudillo family of California, and was considered one of the finest houses in Mexican California. [5]
Historical Marker Gala–Rodriguez House given by the National Historical Institute, May 14, 2008 The Gala–Rodriguez House, second receiving area at the 2nd floor. The Gala–Rodriguez mansion was built in the 1930s as Dr. Isidro Rodriguez' gift to his ailing wife, Doña Gregoria, who had long wished to have her dream house for their seven children.
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He designed the house as a constant curve, both outside and inside, incorporating ruled geometry and naturalistic elements. The courtyard. Casa Milà consists of two buildings, which are structured around two courtyards that provide light to the nine stories: basement, ground floor, mezzanine, main (or noble) floor, four upper floors, and an attic.
When the Spanish first arrived in Puerto Rico, they noted that the native Taino’s architectural structures were susceptible to decay. Subsequently (among other aspects of their society), Tainos were viewed as naive and inferior, and Spanish depictions of their structures tended to give them a more Neoclassical look (which was the basis of European architecture).