Accent on Architecure

This is a Craftsman Prairie School design that was built in 1914 and has been in steady use ever since. For example, more than 1,000 folks attended a “Welcome Home” dance one evening in June 1919 to celebrate the return of local soldiers after World War I. A Santa Barbara paper wrote, “About 1,500 people […]

This is one of the buildings highlighted on Santa Barbara architecture tours. But did you know that in 1913 this historic adobe was used as a location by the “Flying A” film company for a silent movie called “The Ghost of the Hacienda”? You can learn about this home and numerous other buildings on the […]