2. The Utah Arts and Crafts Society celebrates
the Arts and Crafts Movement through
lectures, workshops and field trips.
• www.utahartsandcraftssociety.org
• Facebook- Utah Arts and Crafts Society
• Administer- Arts & Crafts Movement
• Meet September-May
• Memberships
• Mortise & Tenon
3. Topics
• Furniture making
• Bungalows
• Textiles
• Metalcrafts
• Blacksmithing with Lightning Forge
• Ceramics with Red Kiln Pottery
• Bonsai with Bonsai Society
• Paper ephemera at U of U Rare Book
Dept.
• Calligraphy with Utah Calligraphy Society
5. Activities
• Partnered with Utah Heritage Foundation
for two historic home tours
• Toured EuroTreasures
• Book sale Gibbs Smith Publisher at The
Kings English Bookshop
• Rare book display at Marriott Library
• Trolley Square
6. Mission Revival Architecture
Mission Furniture
Simplicity of material & design.
Rectilinear design & exposed carpentry
7. “Revival?” What does it mean?
“Revivalism” in architecture is the use of
visual styles that consciously echo the
style of a previous architectural era.
Other examples of “Revivalism” in
architecture: Greek, Gothic, Romanesque,
Jacobean, Renaissance, Moorish, Tudor,
Spanish Colonial, Pueblo, others.
8. The Arts and Crafts Movement (roughly
1890-1925) boasted the bungalow as its
preeminent residential architectural form.
Designs eventually drew inspiration from
specifically American antecedents,
including the California Spanish Missions.
The Mission Revival movement enjoyed its
greatest popularity between 1890 and
1915, through numerous residential,
commercial, and institutional structures.
Schools and railroad depots, particularly in
the Western and Southwestern U.S. used
this easily recognizable architectural style.
9. The California Mission System
The Spanish missions in California comprise
a series of religious and military outposts
established by Spanish Catholics of
the Franciscan Order between 1769 and
1823 to spread the Christian faith among
the local Native Americans. The missions
represented the first major effort by
Europeans to colonize the Pacific
Coast region, and gave Spain a valuable
toehold in the frontier land.
10. 21 Missions were built in a style reminiscent of
Spanish buildings that the priests were familiar with.
In North America, however, the structures needed
to be built by unskilled laborers using limited
materials like wood, rock, and mud bricks (stucco).
The Mission at
San Luis Rey
11. San Juan Bautista San Juan Capistrano
San Xavier del Bac- Tucson, AZ. Mission San Antonio de Valero
12. The Utah Connection
• The historical Escalante & Dominguez
Expedition of 1776 was conducted to find
an overland route from Santa Fe to the
Missions of California.
• The Expedition went north as far as Vernal
then came down Spanish Fork Canyon to
Utah County and into the western Utah
desert before returning to Santa Fe.
15. The only mission in Utah is
St. Christopher’s Episcopal
Mission in Bluff. Built 1946.
16. Elements of Mission Revival
• Curvilinear parapets with mission silhouette, towers, bell towers
• Red tile roofs
• Minimal decorative elements
• Arched niches
• Deep window openings without any framing but the sill
• Quatrefoil windows (rose windows) and emblems
• Wooden plank floors and iron rails
• Arched doorways
• Enclosed courtyard
• Thick arches springing from piers.
• Exterior walls coated with white plaster (stucco)
• Wide side eaves, shielding the adobe brick walls from rain.
• Long exterior arcades or arcaded entry porch
• Square pillars or twisted columns
17. Most Obvious Elements
• Curvilinear parapets with mission
silhouette, towers, bell towers
• Arched doorways
• White plaster exterior walls (stucco) with
broad unadorned plaster surfaces
• Courtyards
• Red clay roof tiles
• Thick arches springing from piers
18. The Parapet
• A parapet is a low, protective wall. In Mission Revival
examples, the parapet has curvilinear lines to imitate the
silhouette of a Mission.
O.C. Tanner
Building-
Originally
City Library
48. An ode to Mission Revival
Give me neither Romanesque nor Gothic;
much less Italian Renaissance, and least of
all English Colonial —
this is California — give me Mission.
• Anonymous, 1924
What is Mission Style? The term can be applied to both architecture and furniture. The furniture, typically made of oak with a stain finish, had a rectilinear design and exposed carpentry. There was little or no decoration, though the joinery was sometimes given a darker stain to emphasize the expert construction. Fittings were made of copper or iron, and coverings were of leather, canvas, or plain cloth. Mission craftsmen also made stained-glass chandeliers, beaten copper candleholders, and hand-turned earthenware.
Mission Revival loosely means, “Mission, Again”. In other words, the Mission Revival Architecture that we are talking about came about in about 1910 to revive the look of the old Spanish Missions.
The Spanish Mission System
Mission San Xavier del Bac “The White Dove of the Desert”
Escalante and Dominguez 1796 expedition (Utah Valley painting)
Mission at Monterrey
Mission in So Cal
Utah’s own Mission- St. Christophers Mission in Bluff.
Elements of Mission Revival Architecture: Red Tile Roof
Elements: Stucco walls
California Mission Revival
Element- arches
Element: Open air courtyards
Mission Revival Architecture most popular in California
