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The house is named after William Boeing, the founder of The Boeing Company, who named it Aldarra.Located at the edge of a wooded bluff overlooking Puget Sound, it was completed in 1914, and was designed by Charles Bebb [2] in the Mediterranean Revival style with a white stucco façade and red tile roof, and eight fireplaces.
The roofing is covered with red tiles, the masonry walls are covered with white stucco both inside and out, and the terraced floors and terraced grounds give the impression of a hillside town above the Mediterranean. The house itself is cross-shaped with an open courtyard and fountain in the center.
For example, California's Mission Revival style Pavilion in white stucco at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, [3] and the Mission Inn, along with the Electric Tower of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1900 [4] introduced the potential of Spanish Colonial Revival.
Mediterranean Revival is an architectural style introduced in the United States, Canada, and certain other countries in the 19th century. It incorporated references to Spanish Renaissance , Spanish Colonial , Italian Renaissance , French Colonial , Beaux-Arts , Moorish architecture , and Venetian Gothic architecture .
Restored historic apartment in the Mouassine Museum, Marrakesh, with examples of carved and painted decoration in wood and stucco. Traditional houses in Morocco are usually centered around a large internal courtyard, the wast ad-dar, and are characterized by a focus on interior decoration rather than on external appearance.
Devotees of “denture” subdivisions, their acres of red tile roofs over white stucco walls, may find no delight in a Greek Revival house across the street from a Tudor half-timber, next door to ...
For most homebuyers, a luxury home is one with features like a jetted tub, a man cave or she shed, and perhaps an outdoor kitchen. Others look at luxury on an entirely different level. For them,...
Addison Cairns Mizner (/ ˈ m aɪ z n ər / MIZE-ner) (December 12, 1872 – February 5, 1933) was an American architect whose Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style interpretations changed the character of southern Florida, where the style is continued by architects and land developers. [1]