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Dingbat building named "The Mary & Jane" with styled balconies A stucco box. In a 1998 Los Angeles Times editorial about the area's evolving standards for development, the birth of the dingbat is retold (as a cautionary tale): "By mid-century, a development-driven southern California was in full stride, paving its bean fields, leveling mountaintops, draining waterways and filling in wetlands ...
Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a ...
Formstone is a type of stucco [1] commonly applied to brick rowhouses in many East Coast urban areas in the United States, although it is most strongly associated with Baltimore. As a form of simulated masonry , Formstone is commonly colored and shaped on the building to imitate various forms of masonry compound, creating the trompe-l'œil ...
La Habra – archaic spelling of La Abra (Spanish for 'The Opening') – is a city in the northwestern corner of Orange County, California, United States. In the 2010 census , the city had a population of 60,239.
A wattle and daub house as used by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture. The wattle and daub technique has been used since the Neolithic period. It was common for houses of Linear pottery and Rössen cultures of middle Europe, but is also found in Western Asia (Çatalhöyük, Shillourokambos) as well as in North America (Mississippian culture) and South America ().
Rancho La Habra (also called "Rancho Cañada de La Habra") was a 6,698-acre (27.11 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County and Orange County, California [1] [2] given in 1839 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Mariano Reyes Roldan. [3]
The style of stucco decoration around the mihrab, for example, is reminiscent of Iranian stucco work in the style of Tabriz under the contemporary Ilkhanids. [ 15 ] : 154–155 [ 16 ] : 226 The lavish stucco decoration of the madrasa's minaret, on the other hand, appears to involve contemporary Maghrebi styles and craftsmanship alongside local ...
La Habra Heights is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 5,325 at the 2010 census , down from 5,712 at the 2000 census . La Habra Heights is a suburban canyon community located on the border of Orange and Los Angeles counties.