From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Design style during the 20th century
The
Breakers Hotel in
Palm Beach , Florida is a grand example of Mediterranean Revival style
Mediterranean Revival is an
architectural style introduced in the United States,
Canada , and certain other countries in the 19th century. It incorporated references from
Spanish Renaissance ,
Spanish Colonial ,
Italian Renaissance ,
French Colonial ,
Beaux-Arts ,
Moorish architecture , and
Venetian Gothic architecture .
Peaking in popularity during the 1920s and 1930s, the movement drew heavily on the style of
palaces and seaside
villas and applied them to the rapidly expanding coastal resorts of Florida and California.
Structures are typically based on a rectangular floor plan, and feature massive, symmetrical primary façades.
Stuccoed walls, red
tiled roofs, windows in the shape of arches or circles, one or two stories, wood or
wrought iron
balconies with window grilles, and articulated door surrounds are characteristic.
[1]
[2]
Keystones were occasionally employed. Ornamentation may be simple or dramatic. Lush gardens often appear.
The style was most commonly applied to hotels, apartment buildings, commercial structures, and residences. Architects
August Geiger and
Addison Mizner were foremost in Florida, while
Bertram Goodhue ,
Sumner Spaulding , and
Paul Williams were in California.[
citation needed ]
There are also examples of this architectural style in
Cuba , such as the
Hotel Nacional de Cuba , in
Havana .[
citation needed ]
Examples
Pasadena City Hall in California is also an example of the
City Beautiful fashion
Located in
Miami Beach , and built in 1927 to house the Washington Storage Company, the Mediterranean Revival building opened to the public as a museum and research center in 1995.
E. W. Marland Mansion in Ponca City, Oklahoma, completed in 1928
Hayes Mansion in San Jose, California, completed in 1905
Rose Crest Mansion (Currently a portion of
The Mary Louis Academy ) in Jamaica Estates, New York, completed in 1909
Delaware and Hudson Passenger Station in Lake George, New York, 1909–1911
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Los Angeles, California, 1913
Villa Vizcaya in Miami, Florida, completed in 1914
Presidio building in San Francisco, California, completed in 1912
Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, 1921 (demolished)
Allouez Pump House in Allouez, Wisconsin, 1925
Freedom Tower in Miami, Florida, completed in 1925
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida. 1994
Vinoy Park Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida, completed in 1925
Snell Arcade in St. Petersburg, Florida. 1925
Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, Florida, completed in 1926
Miami-Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Florida, completed in 1926
Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, completed in 1926
Cà d'Zan , former John Ringling estate in Sarasota, Florida, completed in 1926
Francis Marion Stokes Fourplex in Portland, Oregon, completed in 1926
Florida Theatre in Jacksonville, Florida, completed in 1927
Pasadena City Hall in Pasadena, California, 1927
Gaia Apartment Building in
Berkeley , California, 2001
Nottingham Cooperative , 1927, Madison, Wisconsin
Greenacres (Former
Harold Lloyd Estate ) in Beverly Hills, California, completed in 1928
Don CeSar Hotel, St. Pete Beach, Florida, completed in 1928
Harder Hall Hotel ,
Sebring, Florida , completed in 1928
Beverly Shores Railroad Station , 1928
Catalina Casino in Avalon, California, completed May 29, 1929
Port Washington Fire Engine House in Wisconsin, completed in 1929
Casa Casuarina (Versace Mansion, now known as The Villa By Barton G.) in Miami Beach, Florida, 1930
Santa Fe Railway depot in Fullerton, California, completed 1930
Town Club (Portland, Oregon) , completed 1931
Beverly Hills City Hall , Beverly Hills, California, 1932
Cooley High School , Detroit, Michigan, built in 1928
Sunrise Theatre , Fort Pierce, Florida, built in 1922
Stuart Court Apartments , Richmond, Virginia, completed in 1926
The Church of Scientology's
Flag Building , Clearwater, Florida, completed in 2011
Plymouth County Hospital , a tuberculosis sanatorium in Hanson, Massachusetts. Completed in 1919
Wolfsonian-FIU , in Miami Beach, Florida, 1927
L. Ron Hubbard House , Washington, D.C., built in 1904
AdventHealth Celebration , Celebration, Florida, opened in 1997
See also
References
Sources
Gustafson, Lee and Phil Serpico (1999). Santa Fe Coast Lines Depots: Los Angeles Division . Acanthus Press, Palmdale, CA.
ISBN
0-88418-003-4 .
Newcomb, Rexford (1992). Mediterranean Domestic Architecture for the United States . Hawthorne Printing Company, New York, NY.
ISBN
0-926494-13-9 .
Signor, John R. (1997). Southern Pacific Lines: Pacific Lines Stations, Volume 1 . Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society, Pasadena, CA.
ISBN
0-9657208-4-5 .
Nolan, David. The Houses of St. Augustine . Sarasota, Pineapple Press, 1995.
Nylander, Justin A. (2010). Casas to Castles: Florida's Historic Mediterranean Revival Architecture . Schiffer publishing.
ISBN
978-0-7643-3435-1 .
International France Germany, Austria-Hungary Great Britain Greece Italy Netherlands Nordic countries Portugal Poland Romania Russian Empire and USSR Serbia Spain United States