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 ...

The house of an adobero is identifiable by the quantity and type of stuff in the yard. Those who work with adobe are natural scroungers and re-users: a heap of leftover mud bricks from someone’s ...

Costa Mesa’s Diego Sepulveda Adobe stands alone on a bluff overlooking a flat landscape of red-tile rooftops, low greenery and the graceful arc of the occasional palm tree. About the only spots not ...

A decision to tear down the historic adobe Paxton house in Escondido has no plan B. And the city needs the 42 condo units that will take its place. But the house, most recently known as Hacienda de ...

Bill Cooper doesn’t consider himself a radical, but one morning almost two decades ago, he was walking through Hart Memorial Park in Bakersfield and saw bulldozers and work crews lined up and ready to ...

BRATTLEBORO -- The Brattleboro Rotary raised more than $9,000 with their International Film & Food Festival in November, which is enough to completely fund the construction of an adobe house for a ...

The small adobe house near Shaw Avenue in Fresno west of Highway 99 was meaningful to Anne Gonzales irrespective of its historic importance. That’s because several members of Gonzales’ immediate ...

The 83-year-old adobe house, which at one point in its history came perilously close to being demolished, began a new life Wednesday as Hart Park's Kern River Parkway Nature Center. The one-time ...

The building had remained neglected and unused for decades. But now the 81-year-old Adobe House in Hart Park is beginning to be recognized by state and national historians as a building of historical ...