Dancers Alma Real and Filipe del Hoyo at Old Spanish Days Fiesta, circa 1935. Credit: Santa Barbara Historical Museum Collection photo [Noozhawk’s note: One in a daily series leading up to Old Spanish ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." With their roomy size and eye-pleasing symmetry, Colonial-style homes remain one of the most enduring ...

America is composed of many different architectural styles. From Mediterranean-style homes influenced by rustic European architecture to the more traditional Colonial buildings nestled in pockets ...

Exterior of a row of colorful Victorian homes with intricate wood trim. The story of American architecture has followed much of the same path as art has over the past 400 years. Art, as a whole, tends ...

Extracted from: Journal of modern history (Chicago) 59 (2) 1987, pages 291-316. The urban modernist vision of French architects during the colonial period could not be implemented in metropolitan ...

Few destinations in Central America balance authenticity and discovery quite like Nicaragua’s colonial cities.

Heritage neighbourhoods in Mumbai often survive in a fragile balance. A few restored houses here, a freshly plastered façade ...