Talk:Mission Revival architecture

Mission Revival Style architecture
Reverted move to Mission revival architecture as Mission Revival Style architecture is the proper term for this movement.--Lordkinbote 16:01, August 22, 2005 (UTC)''

I don't think the Mission Revival and Spanish Mission articles should be merged. It would make more sense to merge the Arts and Crafts article with this one, as those two share much more in common. Perhaps a disambiguation page is called for. - Greg G.


 * Actually, Arts & Crafts and Mission Revival are two distinct architectural types and therefore should remain separate. This article would be better (and more accurately) titled (renamed) "Spanish Colonial Revival Architecture."--Lordkinbote 06:54, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

For most people, Mission Style brings to mind Craftsman bungalows and Stickley furniture. I understand that these are more correctly considered part of the Arts and Crafts movement, but that doesn't change how Mission Style is used by the public at large. I'm concerned that none of the related articles clarify this. I don't consider myself an expert in this area, but I have long been a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright and I've always liked the simplicity of Mission Style (aka Arts and Crafts) furniture. I've always thought of Spanish Mission and Mission Revival as being two entirely different design styles, with the latter almost synonymous with Arts and Crafts. I'm not suggesting that any of the articles are wrong, but I do think that some clarification is needed. It occurs to me that there might be a regional difference in the usage of this term. - Greg G.


 * I've been trying to disambiguate this subject for a little while now, please visit the Gustav Stickley article where I've added the correct definition for this style of furniture, "mission oak." This is also the reason I added the word "architecture" to the page title and changed the redirect for Mission Style.  The various architectural styles (Craftsman, Prarie, Mission Revival) have been established by such groups as the American Institute of Architects which (in theory) takes into account regional applications.  Looking around Wikipedia, there is clearly more work required in these areas.  Hope this helps.--Lordkinbote 17:42, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Even if the anonymous quotation is anonymous, we should provide a source of some sort for it. Was it printed somewhere?

65.213.77.129 (talk) 19:49, 18 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I see it's been taken care of. Thanks! 65.213.77.129 (talk) 19:40, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

And what about Texas?
This article suggests that impulses for this architectural style came almost exclusively from California. Thus I find it ironic that the Best house in Davenport was nicknamed "The Alamo." The Spanish missions of Texas, the first in the late seventeenth century, always provided architectural options, whether one characterizes the style as Mission or Spanish Colonial Revival. This mansion,since demolished, was built in Abilene TX in 1910, and there are many less grand examples strewn across South and West Texas. Or take a look at the University Christian Church, Ft. Worth, from the 30s.--Janko (talk) 04:27, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

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The Spanish Mission Style and its associated Spanish Colonial Revival Style became internationally influential. Examples can be found throughout Australia and New Zealand where the California Bungalow style was also prevalent. In South Africa it merged with the very similar Cape Style, a local architecture which utilized the same Dutch Gable shapes with vernacular mud brick construction – this probably had an influence on other 'Colonial Style' buildings on the African continent in the interwar period. In Central and South America its influence is less discernible as the Spanish Colonial Style had, in effect not been departed from, so it is arguable that there wasn't a revival. Following the examples that developed in places like Florida the Mission Style became one of the several styles associated with warm, seaside developments and thus appeared throughout Europe and even Asia; Osbert Lancaster lampooned it as Coca-Cola Colonial. Increasingly watered down as a style it re-emerged in the 1950s, often as hotel architecture and survived into the 1970s as a domestic style; this was doubtless due to the prevalence of the Caribbean and Spain in popular culture of the period helped by the increasing popularity of places like Spain for holidays from Britain.