Three years after St. Augustine was founded, Alvara de Mendana, nephew of the governor of Peru, set out with two ships and 150 soldiers and sailed west to find gold and a new trade route to China.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As anyone who made it through third-grade American history may recall, the Brits had a bit of a political and cultural impact on ...
Most homes in Spanish Colonial Revival style have flat stucco walls, topped with gently sloping roofs with red clay roof ...
After a pandemic-era return to Los Angeles, Kiran Rai embraced the home’s history—and her own—creating a retreat shaped by memory, not minimalism ...
Mature palm trees bring elevation and the tropics to this brand new mansion in the San Rafael Country Club area of Marin County. Even the address - 10 Margarita Drive - conjures vacation. The Spanish ...
Traditional Spanish Market, the oldest and largest juried art show of its kind, returns to Santa Fe this weekend. The market, which is in its 72nd year, draws visitors from around the world. It takes ...
Popular in the Southwest region and California, Spanish colonials are not a style you see very often around Westchester County, which is one of the reasons this particular house is so special. Built ...
Designer Kathryn M. Ireland says, “I think a house ought to have a soul. That takes respecting the house itself, as well as what people before me did to it.” ...
If there was confusion regarding the architectural differences between the styles of English Cottage and French Eclectic, there will be no confusion when it comes to identifying Spanish Revival. The ...
Midcentury Modern architecture fans make the trek to Modernism Week in Palm Springs twice a year for the opportunity to tour modern classics like Albert Frey’s 800-square-foot “Frey House II” or the ...
Planks from the hull of a 1559 shipwreck sit on the sandy bottom of Pensacola Bay. Researchers are the University of Western Florida discovered this shipwreck in summer 2016 after a magnetic survey of ...