Architecture, Art, Design, and Culture using of mud, clay, soil, dirt & dust.
Caption on the front of this postcard reads, “Old Mission Style of Adobe House, A Mexican Residence, W.H. Horne Co., El Paso, Tex.” and is postmarked from El Paso, Oct 20, 1919. Message on the back is “How would you like to live in a mud house like this?”
El Camino Real, California Adobe House
Vallejos Petaluma adobe near Sonoma, California
1914 San Antonio, Texas adobe house.
Color linen postcard of the US Post Office, Old Tucson, Tucson Mountain Park, Arizona. Mailed to Jackson Michigan 1947. Horseman with cowboy hat stands in front of old adobe brick building.
El Ranchito, Pio Pico Adobe, home of Pio Pico, the last Mexican Governor of California. Maywood, California, Nov 26, 1941
Old Adobe House, Ventura, California, circa 1910,
The caption on this photo reads, “Historical Landmark, Adobe Building, Dutch Flat, California, circa 1960. Built by the Chinese in 1877. Instead of adobe bricks, they used a solid-wall type of construction. Dutch Flat California is a quaint old mining town of the Gold Rush Days, which in 1853 had a population of 6,000 including 3,5000 Chinese”. The solid-wall construction method probably refers to rammed earth.
This 1944 photo of the “historic, little, old Mission Dolores is San Francisco’s oldest establishment. It was founded in 1776, and services have been held in the adobe building ever since. Located at Dolores and 16th Streets, the mission stands alongside a modern church of the same faith. Five-foot thick adobe walls separate the mission from a quaint old graveyard, where scores of pioneers are buried.”
Old Indian Adobe at Warner Hot Springs in San Diego, California.