Editing Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (section)

===Mediterranean Revival===
[[File:spanish-mission-style.jpg|thumb|Spanish Colonial Revival style in contemporary residence]]
[[File:Sede Banco Hipotecario.JPG|thumb|Secretary of Culture of [[Mendoza, Argentina]] (1929)]]
The antecedents of the Spanish Colonial Revival Style in the United States can be traced to the [[Mediterranean Revival architecture|Mediterranean Revival architectural]] style. In St. Augustine, Florida, a former Spanish colony, a winter playground was developing for wealthy people from northern cities in the United States. Three architects from New York City [[John Merven Carrère|John Carrère]] and [[Thomas Hastings (architect)|Thomas Hastings]] of [[Carrère and Hastings]] and [[Boston]]ian Franklin W. Smith, designed grand, elaborately detailed hotels in the Mediterranean Revival and [[:Category:Spanish Revival architecture|Spanish Revival]] styles in the 1880s. With the construction of the Ponce de Leon Hotel (designed by Carrère and Hastings, 1882), the Alcazar Hotel (Carrère and Hastings, 1887), and the [[Casa Monica Hotel]] (later the Hotel Cordova) built by Franklin W. Smith in 1888, Spanish-influenced architecture spread to several other parts of Florida. These three hotels were influenced not only by the centuries-old buildings remaining from the period [[St. Augustine, Florida#Spanish rule|Spanish rule in St. Augustine]] but also by ''The Old City House'', constructed in 1873 and still standing, an excellent example of early Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.