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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]
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 Batlló (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkazə βəˈʎːo] ⓘ) is a building in the center of Barcelona, Spain. It was designed by Antoni Gaudí , and is considered one of his masterpieces. A remodel of a previously built house, it was redesigned in 1904 by Gaudí (but the actual construction works hadn’t begun at this point) and has been ...
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]
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).
“Even though the share of Latinos who speak Spanish at home has declined, the number who do so has grown from 24.6 million in 2000 to 39.3 million in 2021,” the Pew Center wrote.
It was the home of Ole Hanson who co-founded the city of San Clemente. Casa Romantica was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1991. Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that provides cultural programs at the site. [ 2 ]