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3 unusual facts about Mediterranean Revival architecture


Belmont Heights, Long Beach, California

Other architectural styles found in the area that are considered contributing are Victorian, Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Neo-Traditional.

Mediterranean Style House

Mediterranean Revival architecture, a design style popular in the early twentieth century

Zane Grey Estate

Designed by architects Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey (no relation to the author), the 1907 Mediterranean Revival style house is acclaimed as the first fireproof home in Altadena, built entirely of reinforced concrete as prescribed by Woodward's wife, Edith Norton Woodward.


Casa Maria

The main house was built 1921-1922 in the Spanish-Mediterranean style with a two-story brick addition that dates from 1928 and was designed by William Lawrence Bottomley.

Rainbow Terrace

Rainbow Terrace, now known as Lullwater Estate, is the Mediterranean-style Atlanta mansion built for Lucy Beall Candler Owens Heinz (1882–1962), daughter of Coca-Cola co-founder Asa Griggs Candler.


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