Italian at the edge China(town)

Philippines Center

Hermes Union Square

Nevada Lodge No. 13

Front and back doors. Each with a neat pendant light fixture.

National Hotel, Nevada City, CA

Davis Library, Formerly

Santa Clara

These doorways, portals and facades are from Santa Clara University, founded 1851, which grew up around Mission Santa Clara, est. 1777. These pictures show the unified architecture that has grown and blossomed from a Mission Style that the Spanish both brought and created as they ventured north along California's Mission Trail in the 1700's. The architecture includes simple forms with plain smooth walls of creamy stucco, and explosions of ornament where it counts, especially around doorways and at important places on the facades and towers. These building are simpler, less complex echoes of the buildings of the Spanish Renaissance, with deeper echoes to Tuscany.

Olympic Portal