sweet digs: spain on the strand - a renovation honors the home's heritage
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by pamela coranTe-Hansen
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new yor traplat kevi shield ew it would be a hallege to ovie hi souther califoria-
born ancée to abandon Bel Air for Manhattan Beach. But he never imagined that getting her to move would
require purchasing a 1930s Spanish Colonial Revival home on The Strand, a mere block from the 1921 Art
Deco house he had meticulously restored earlier.
“Over the 15 years I lived in the Art Deco home, I’d walk past the Strand house so many times,” Shields
recalls. “I would always ask the owner, ‘Mr. Foley, when are you going to sell me your house?’ When he and
his wife decided to move to Palm Springs ve years ago, I bought the house. It was only then that my wife
agreed to marry me and move down to the beach.”
Bucking the trend of razing old homes and replacing them with monolithic mansions, Shields and his wife
decided to renovate the house, staying faithful to its original Spanish Revival design. The vision: A Spanish-
Moroccan-style residence with modern ourishes.
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SPANISH cOLONIAL REVIVAL
ARcHItEctURE IN cALIFORNIA
Widel redited as the reator o the Spanish colonial evival
movement, noted merian arhitet Bertram goodhe
introded Sothern caliornians to the stle at the 1915
anama-caliornia xposition on the site o present-da
Balboa ark in San ieo. o honor caliornia’s ispani
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parapets, tile oors and wroht-iron and onrete rilles,
Spanish colonial evival homes bean rain oastal
Sothern caliornia ities sh as Santa Barbara and a Jolla
in the earl 1920s. rhitet geore Washinton Smith took
the stle to the next level, desinin homes or Sothern
caliornia’s elite in the 1920s and 1930s. Several o his reations
still stand in onteito, Santa Barbara and asadena; some
are open to the pbli.
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in the reion o ndalsia, the stle onormed avorabl
to Sothern caliornia’s editerranean limate, enablin
arhitets to desin ortards and patios that old be sed
ear-rond. Beore lon, Spanish colonial evival homes
beame ioni elements o Sothern caliornia’s arhitetral
landsape.
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geore Washinton Smith: rhitet o the Spanish colonialevival b atriia gebhard (gibbs Smith, blisher, 2005).
caliornia omantia: Spanish colonial and ission-Stle
oses b iane eaton (izzoli, 2007).
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geore Washinton Smith’s casa del errero hose, Santa
Barbara (www.asadelherrero.om). B appointment onl.
call (805) 565-5653.
damson ose, alib (www.adamsonhose.or). gidedtors Wednesda throh Satrda, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (310)
456-8432. – .c..
a view from The sTrand. The fronT of Thehome has reTained mosT of iTs original
form and spanish revival elemenTs.
buTcher-block counTerTops and red cabineTry
add color and inTeresT To The kiTchen while
providing ample counTer and sTorage space.
goThic Touches such as The sTylized columns
of The fireplace were common in 1930s
revival archiTecTure. The sTone manTelpiece
and wroughT-iron arTwork make an eleganT
sTaTemenT in The second-floor living area.
The barrel ceiling adds a spanish colonial
revival Touch To The TemperaTure
conTrolled walk-Through wine cellar.