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Architecture Spotlight: Spanish Colonial Revival evokes L.A.’s golden era

The Casa del Prado, along a pedestrian promenade in San Diego's Balboa Park boasts extensive ornamentation. The genre's popularity really took off after a 1915 expo in the park whose buildings brought back the glamour of "the old Spanish days."

The Casa del Prado, along a pedestrian promenade in San Diego’s Balboa Park boasts extensive ornamentation. The genre’s popularity really took off after a 1915 expo in the park whose buildings brought back the glamour of “the old Spanish days.”

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

With their red-tile roofs and stucco walls so commonplace that they’ve become part of the landscape, the homes of the Spanish Colonial Revival tapped the climate, local materials and an idealized view of history to become the signature style of Southern California.

Spanish Colonial Revival

Santa Barbara’s mission was built in 1787, but it took a 1925 earthquake for the city to get a Spanish Colonial downtown.

  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Spanish Colonial Revival

Union Station in Los Angeles was built when Spanish Colonial was in favor. But the style’s popularity waned in the 1960s and 1970s.

  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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