There are many house styles we are so used to seeing, from Victorian to new build designs. But Adobe homes are a historical yet lesser-seen architecture type that embodies some of this year's most ...

In the two years Don Laverty and Valorie McClelland have owned their Poway home, they have tackled numerous projects from tiling bathroom walls to planting a cactus garden. Each task is a labor of ...

Here are a few historic adobe buildings in the Bay Area, some of which are open to the public or can be viewed from outside. Check websites, or call ahead for hours and admission prices (if any).

The current trends toward organic colors, natural materials, and elements of nature have led to a resurgence in the popularity of adobe-inspired decor. This design style is based on the architectural ...

An adobe house may evoke images of the Southwest, serapes, and the twangy keening of an Ennio Morricone soundtrack for many Americans. But there’s more to it than just this picture. In fact, the ...

A historic Adobe house that is the subject of Milford Zornes’s 1934 watercolor painting “Old Adobe” near Pomona, California, will soon hit the market for $1.98 million, Mansion Global can report. The ...

Whether your interest is in adobe homes, history, period architecture or vintage decor, this year’s Adobe Home Tour has something to offer. The tour on Sunday, March 26 will feature four homes: one in ...

Was it something about this 1907 adobe home that inspired its long-term owners to contribute to the community? Fernand Lungren, a famous landscape artist, built the home and lived here for 25 years.

When Bob Bailey picked out the historic mud adobe house he made his home in 1977, he had to imagine what it could be. It hardly resembled the three-room Spanish colonial that railroad engineer Harry C ...

In Santa Fe, New Mexico, a nearly 200-year-old adobe mansion that was registered by the National Park Service as a historic structure in 1937 is on the market for a cool $12.5 million. As Mansion ...

Mid-20th-century adobe residences that have stories to tell and artful handcrafted details to show off are on the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation (THPF) annual home tour Saturday. Five stops ...