Also known as double roman roofs the mission style is distinct for its pronounced ridges or ribs that stick out far more than any other tile roof style.
Spanish mission style house with arches and tile roofs.
High profile barrels create distinctive shadows that change the look and feel of the roof as the sun moves in the sky making a striking statement of texture and style.
All these divergent all share similar elements.
The mission style really a revival based on the style of california s 18th and 19th century missions came to popularity in california beginning in the 1890s and soon spread to the rest of the southwest and florida.
Mission or mission revival house plans share the stucco walls and red tile roofs common to the other architectural styles indigenous to california and the american southwest but they have one distinguishing feature.
In every spanish style home arches are quite pronounced.
The look of these tiles is distinctly mediterranean.
So also over the years there have been different divergent to spanish style homes.
Here is one which stands proudly with little arched windows and its own tile roof.
They are however more elaborate than the colonial era mission churches.
Ludowici mission tile faithfully matches authentic italian french and spanish architecture as well as southwestern mission design.
This time around spanish architectural elements the white stucco exterior red tile roof etc were more of a choice than a necessity emphasizing the beauty and old world feel of the materials.
Does your house have a medieval heritage.
Mission style houses typically have red tile roofs parapets decorative railings and carved stonework.
Before it was a landmark it was a spanish mission and its distinctive parapet is the hallmark of mission style architecture.
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Spanish eclectic mission revival style spanish baroque and many others.
Wild and expressive the mission house style borrowed from the entire history of spanish architecture from moorish to byzantine to renaissance.
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Spanish colonial missions inspired a style of architecture still popular in the united states.
The decorative ledges below it are perfect for displaying rustic planters.