Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: JayKay57/Getty Images An adobe house may evoke images of the Southwest, serapes, and the twangy keening of an Ennio ...

When the construction boom began in the Roaring Twenties, interest in adobes began to build. In 1920, the local paper wrote, “Adobe May Solve Building Problem. Adobe, once so essential to building and ...

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 ...

Terran says it designs its walls around the standards in the International Residential Code’s Appendix AU, which covers cob construction, also known as monolithic adobe. “Monolithic” means the wall ...

The Adobe House plans to develop a curriculum and be open to visitors four to five hours a day, three days a week. However, volunteers are needed to make the plan come to fruition. BAKERSFIELD, Calif.

The main adobe building at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site near La Junta is now considered one of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places. Crumbling adobe walls and other structural problems mostly ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1981 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. The Spanish colonials and the Indians of the ...