(Redirected from Mission Revival Style Architecture)
The 'Mission Revival Style' was an architectural movement that began in the late
19th Century and drew inspiration from the early
Spanish missions in California. The movement enjoyed its greatest popularity between 1890 and 1915, though numerous modern residential, commercial, and institutional structures (particularly schools and railroad depots) display this instantly-recognizable architectural style.
All of California's missions shared certain design characteristics, owing both to the limited selection of building materials available to the founding ''padres'' and an overall lack of advanced construction experience. Each installation utilized massive walls with broad, unadorned surfaces and limited fenestration, wide, projecting eaves, and low-pitched
clay tile roofs. Other features included long,
arcaded corridors, piered
arches, and curved
gables. Exterior walls were coated with
plaster (
stucco) to shield the
adobe bricks beneath from the elements.
A view looking down an exterior ''corredor'' at
Mission San Fernando Rey de España, a common architectural feature of the Spanish Missions that is often emulated in Mission Revival Style architecture.
Each of these elements are replicated, to varying degrees, in Mission Revival buildings. Modern construction materials and building practices render these characteristics largely cosmetic, however.
:'''Plymouth Rock was a state of mind.
:'''So were the California Missions.
::
Charles Fletcher Lummis
::
''The Spanish Pioneers'', 1929
:'''Give me neither Romanesque nor Gothic;
:'''much less Italian Renaissance,
:'''and least of all English Colonial —
:'''this is California — give me Mission.
::
Anonymous
A list of structures designed in the Mission Revival Style
★
Burlingame Railroad Station in
Burlingame, California, completed in
1894
★
Santa Fe Railway Depot in
San Juan Capistrano, California, completed in
1894
★
Castañeda Hotel in
Las Vegas, New Mexico, completed in
1898
★
Alvarado Hotel in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, completed in
1902 (demolished
1970)
★
Mission Inn in
Riverside, California, completed in
1902
★
Union Station in
San Diego, California, completed in
1915
★
San Gabriel Civic Auditorium in
San Gabriel, California, completed in
1927
★
Villa Rockledge in
Laguna Beach, California, completed in
1935
★
Canoga Mission Gallery in
Canoga Park, California, completed in
1936
Gallery
References
The
San Gabriel Civic Auditorium, a classic example of "
Mission Revival Style architecture", was built between 1921 and 1927 as the "Mission Playhouse" under the guidance of poet, ''
Los Angeles Times'' columnist, and author
John Steven McGroarty specifically as a venue for his production of ''The Mission Play'' which chronicled the
history of California, and under the benefaction of a syndicate comprised of The Mission Playhouse Corporation and The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. The structure, modeled after the
Mission San Antonio de Padua in
Monterey County, was originally designed by architect Arthur Benton after sketches by McGroarty but completed by architect
William J. Dodd who took over and redesigned the
auditorium in 1926 to the newest engineering specifications when Benton became terminally ill. Dodd completed the auditorium in time for the opening of the "Mission Play" season on March 5, 1927.
★
Santa Fe Coast Lines Depots: Los Angeles Division, Gustafson, Lee and Phil Serpico, , , Acanthus Press, Palmdale, CA, 1999, ISBN 0-88418-003-4
★
The History of Villa Rockledge, Jones, R., , , American National Research Institute, Laguna Beach, CA, 1991,
★
California's Mission Revival, Weitze, K., , , Hennessy & Ingalls, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, 1984, ISBN 0-912158-89-1
★
The Missions of California, Yenne, Bill, , , Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA, 2004, ISBN 1-59223-319-8
See also
★
Mediterranean Revival Style architecture
★
Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture
External links
★
William J. Dodd~American Architect and Designer
العربية
中国
Français
Deutsch
Ελληνική
हिन्दी
Italiano
日本語
Português
Русский
Español
