Stylistic influences from the Spanish occupation of North America resulted in several popular sub-styles grouped together under this broad category. Two Lubbock structures built in the earliest of these styles - the Mission Revival - have been demolished: the 1910 First Christian Church and the Murfee home at 14th Street and Avenue T. However, there are several examples of the Spanish Colonial Revival, Monterey, and Pueblo styles, all of which originated in California and spread over the Southwestern United States.

Drawing inspiration from a broader selection of early Spanish prototypes throughout the New World and Spain, the Spanish Colonial Revival style used Moorish, Byzantine, Gothic and Spanish Renaissance details and forms to produce more historically accurate and ornamented structures than previously popular Mission Revival buildings. Spanish Colonial Revival structures may have low-pitched red tile roofs with little or no overhand, either side-gabled, cross-gabled, hipped, or a combination of gabled and hipped, or flat roofs with parapets and tiled shed-roofed entry porches. One or more arches usually appear over the main entry door, below porch roofs, or over a principal window. Stuccoed wall surfaces, arcades, decorative wood or metal grilles on windows or balconies, elaborately carved entry doors, or Atlantic Coast facades are common. Commercial examples usually feature the application of ornaments to an otherwise flat facade and may be brick veneer. Churches more commonly have the general form and a tower taken from Spanish missions found in the Southwestern United States, but both commercial and religious structures usually have more elaborate ornamentation than homes.

President’s Residence (Ex-Students’ Association), TTU, 1925; William Ward Watkin, Houston, and Sanguinet-Staats & Hedrick, Ft. Worth, associate architects
2115 8th St., 1925 with alterations
1804 Ave. X, 1926
2406 21st St., 1926; Ribble & Ribble, architects
2422 21st St., 1926
Miller-Loter House, 2323 18th St., 1927; LHL
2121 25th St., 1927
1901 32nd St., 1928
1802 Ave. H, 1931
St. Elizabeth’s Church, 2305 Main St., 1935/1940/1949; O. R. Walker and James Atcheson, architects (Pictured)
Prideaux-Mahon House, 2123 19th St., 1936 with addition; LHL
Landwer-Manicapelli House, Buddy Holly Park, Canyon Lakes, 1936; LHL

The Monterey style, popular between 1925 and 1955, is based on early Colonial houses of northern California in which the pitched roof and plan of New England houses was combined with Spanish adobe construction. Revival examples used both Spanish and English Colonial details - earlier ones emphasizing Spanish and later ones, English. Both types are two-stories in height with low-pitched gabled or hipped roofs and second-story balconies beneath the main roof. Roofs may be covered in wood shingles or, less commonly, clay tiles. Exterior wall surfaces are either stucco, brick, wood, or wood over brick. Paired windows with false shutters, wood balcony columns and balustrades, and simple detailed trim are typical. When cast iron is used instead of wood on balcony railings and columns, the house is called Creole French.

1906 23rd St., 1936
Bidwell-Green House, 2623 21st St., 1937; LHL
1723 29th St., 1938 with balcony enclosed
3124 20th St., 1938 (Pictured)
5225 19th St., 1941-42 (Creole French); Haynes & Strange, architects
1707 33rd St., 1950

The Pueblo style has been popular in Arizona and New Mexico since 1910, originating in California at the turn of the century. It is a mixture of flat-roofed Spanish Colonial buildings and Native American Indian pueblos of northern Arizona and New Mexico. Characteristics include irregular, earth-colored stucco wall surfaces, occasionally on authentic adobe, but usually over wood framing; flat roofs with parapeted walls; rounded edges on parapets and corners; projecting rough hewn wooden ornamentation of the Spanish Renaissance had been popular for university buildings across the original pueblos.

Period Revivals

Spanish Revivals