|
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| Additional
Images |
| Primary
Object |
| Adobe
Brick |
| Artist/Maker |
| Unknown |
| Title/Object
Name |
| Adobe
brick (F2002.3724) |
| Date |
| Unknown |
| Medium |
| Sand/mud/straw
(plant
material)/nails |
| Dimensions |
H
–
4
½”
W
–
19”
D
–
11” |
| Artifact
Descriptions |
| Rectangular
shaped
adobe
brick. Straw
and
nails
visible. |
|
|
|
| Adobe
Brick |
Updated:
September 12, 2006
dobe brick was a primary building material used to construct the California missions. The adobe bricks in the Mission Inn collections are typical of the type used. The bricks were usually made of a mixture of clay, straw, manure, and water. Workers combined these materials and placed them in wooden forms, about twenty inches wide by eleven inches in depth. They later removed the bricks and allowed them to harden, baked by the sun. Each resulting brick was about two to five inches thick.
Other types of construction used adobe bricks, as well. In 1875, the Miller family built a two-story house on what is now the site of the Mission Inn. The house was built, in part, with adobe bricks and covered with clapboard. The Miller family opened their house to boarders shortly after it was constructed. As the Glenwood, it was considered one of Riverside’s finest hotels. In 1880, C. C. Miller sold the property to his son, Frank.
The siding and second story of the house were removed during the first phase of Mission Inn construction. Frank Miller transformed the structure into a tearoom complete with rooftop garden, and used the space to display many Indian baskets from the hotel's collections. He renamed the building the Old Adobe. It stood until 1948, when Miller's daughter Allis and her husband DeWitt Hutchings demolished it and built a swimming pool in its place. |
| Lesson
Plans & Standards |
 Classroom
Lesson Plans
California
Educational Standards
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| Online
Links & Resources |
http://www.adobebuilder.com/ |
| Bibliography |
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K. (1958) Architecture
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Story
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San
Antonio
de
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CA:
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M. (1974) Guidebook
to
the
Missions
of
California. Los
Angeles, CA: Anderson,
Ritchie & Simon.
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S. (1975) California's
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Their Yesterdays
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K., and
Fracchia, C. (1997) The
Golden
Dream:
California
from
Gold
Rush
to
Statehood. Portland,
OR: Graphic
Arts Center
Publishing Company.
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E. (1982) The
Mission
Inn: Its
History
and
Artifacts. Riverside, CA: Rubidoux Printing.
- Johnson,
P., ed. (1964) The
California
Missions. Menlo
Park,
CA: Lane
Book Company.
- Robinson,
W. (1953) Panorama:
A
Picture
History
of
Southern
California, Los
Angeles,
CA:
Anderson,
Ritchie & Simon.
- Romero,
Orlando, David
Larkin and Michael
Freeman. (1994) Adobe:
Building and Living With Earth. Boston, MA: Houghton
Mifflin Company,
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R. (1950) California's
Missions. Arroyo
Grande,
CA: Hubert
A. and
Martha H.
Lowman.
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Levick, M. (1988) The
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California. San
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Books LLC.
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