The 1915 book La patria y la arquitectura nacional by architect Federico E. The neocolonial style arose as a response to European eclecticism (favored during the Porfiriato). Following the Mexican Revolution, there was a wave of nationalism that emphasized national culture, including in architecture. The Spanish Colonial Revival of Mexico has a distinct origin from the style developed in the United States. Spurgeon constructed 32 Spanish colonial revival houses in Riverside and many of them have been preserved. Gage are other notable civic examples in California. , the Sonoma City Hall, and the Beverly Hills City Hall by Harry G. The Pasadena City Hall by John Bakewell, Jr. Real estate developer Ole Hanson favored the Spanish Colonial Revival style in his founding and development of San Clemente, California in 1928. The County Courthouse designed by William Mooser III and the Arlington Theatre designed by Edwards and Plunkett are prime examples. The city of Santa Barbara adopted the style to give it a unified Spanish character after widespread destruction in the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake. In the early 1920s, architect Lilian Jeannette Rice designed the style in the development of the town of Rancho Santa Fe in San Diego County. It is best exemplified in the California Quadrangle, built as the grand entrance to that Exposition. In 1915 the San Diego Panama-California Exposition, with architects Bertram Goodhue and Carleton Winslow Sr., popularized the style in the state and nation.

The major location of design and construction in the Spanish Colonial Revival style was California, especially in the coastal cities.

Augustine but also by The Old City House, constructed in 1873 and still standing, an excellent example of early Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. These three hotels were influenced not only by the centuries-old buildings remaining from the Spanish rule in St. Smith, 1888) thousands of winter visitors to 'the Sunshine State' began to experience the charm and romance of Spanish influenced architecture. With the advent of the Ponce de Leon Hotel (Carrère and Hastings, 1882), the Alcazar Hotel (Carrère and Hastings, 1887) and the Casa Monica Hotel (later Hotel Cordova) (Franklin W. Smith, designed grand, elaborately detailed hotels in the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Revival styles in the 1880s. Augustine, Florida ( a former Spanish colony), three northeastern architects, New Yorkers John Carrère and Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings and Bostonian Franklin W. The antecedents of the Spanish Colonial Revival Style in the United States can be traced to the Mediterranean Revival architectural style. Secretary of Culture of Mendoza, Argentina (1929). The iconic terracotta shingles and stucco walls have been standard design of new construction in these regions from the 1970s to present. Today, tract home design in Southern California and Florida largely descends from the early movement. interpretation saw popularity in Mexico and was locally termed colonial californiano. style which was primarily influenced by the northern missions of New Spain.

The Mexican style was primarily influenced by the Baroque architecture of central New Spain, in contrast to the U.S. In Mexico, the Spanish Colonial Revival in architecture was tied to the nationalist movement in arts encouraged by the post- Mexican Revolution government. Embraced principally in California and Florida, the Spanish Colonial Revival movement enjoyed its greatest popularity between 19. In the United States, the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 in San Diego, highlighting the work of architect Bertram Goodhue, is credited with giving the style national exposure. The Spanish Colonial Revival Style ( Spanish: Arquitectura neocolonial española) is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Ex-First National Bank of Boston, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1924).

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