Spanish Colonial Style: Santa Barbara and the Architecture of James Osborne Craig and Mary McLaughlin Craig

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An ode to the classic Spanish-style houses of Santa Barbara. Spanish Colonial Style celebrates an bizarre tradition in architecture whose hallmarks include whitewashed stucco and plaster walls, wood-beamed ceilings, dramatic fireplaces, and, above all, mystery and romance. Homes on this much-loved style of architecture welcome the visitor and embrace the resident, and architects James Osborne Craig and Mary McLaughlin Craig, early proponents of the style and influential disseminators of it, were masters of the form. Their work, until now, has been in large part underappreciated and little seen. 
The Craigs played pivotal roles within the development of the Spanish Colonial Revival and of other styles of architecture in Santa Barbara, and the influence in their work spread much beyond that. Along with shining a long overdue spotlight at the wealthy career of these tremendously influential architects, Spanish Colonial Style also heralds Santa Barbara as the small city of international importance that it changed into within the first half of the 20 th century.

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