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The architecture of the U.S. state of Texas comes from a wide variety of sources. Many of the state's buildings reflect Texas' Spanish and Mexican roots; in addition, there is considerable influence from mostly the American South as well as the Southwest. Rapid economic growth since the mid twentieth century has led to a wide variety of ...
"A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of families] except Africans and their descendants and Indians living in Texas ...
Plantation houses in Texas (8 P) Plantations in Texas (3 C, 3 P) This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 11:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Wright designed the house around a "diamond module" with 60- and 120-degree angles. The red cement floors had a diamond pattern in the same shape. The skylights were equilateral triangles, each corner 60 degrees. The pool, nestled into the wide corner of the L-shaped house, was a parallelogram with a notch out of one corner.
A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture. Knopf, 2013. ISBN 978-1400043590. Reiff, Daniel D. Houses from Books. Penn State Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-271-01943-7. Scully, Vincent. American Architecture and Urbanism. New Revised Edition. New York: Henry Holt, 1988.
Mission Revival architecture at San Diego State University, California. Mission/Spanish Revival is an amalgam of two distinct styles popular in different but adjacent eras: the primarily late-19th-century Mission Revival Style architecture and early-20th-century (and later) Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. The combined term, or the ...
Barker House (Houston) Barton House (Salado, Texas) Judge Robert Lynn Batts House; Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens; Alfred Horatio Belo House; M. A. Benton House; Max Bettin House; Bishop's Palace (Galveston, Texas) Otto Bombach House; Borgstrom House; Bowers–Felts House; Bremond Block Historic District; Otto Brinkmann House; Genaro P. and ...
Buildings of the United States government in Texas (1 C, 18 P) This page was last edited on 30 May 2024, at 20:57 (UTC). Text is ...