Mission Style Roofs

Interlocking shingle style also with locking tabs on the sides and top.

Mission style roofs.

And spanish style profiled like the letter s so each piece functions as both a pan and a cover. Ludowici mission tile faithfully matches authentic italian french and spanish architecture as well as southwestern mission design. French style with locking tabs on the sides and top. The covers can be laid in straight rows or staggered and mortar boosted to produce a more rustic look.

The style includes mission shaped dormers and or roof parapet. Before it was a landmark it was a spanish mission and its distinctive parapet is the hallmark of mission style architecture. The style is similar to its cousin spanish revival. Mission revival buildings at golden gate.

The mission revival style became more visible and popular across the west as the santa fe and southern pacific railways embraced the style with their new stations and resort hotels. Mission or mission revival house plans share the stucco walls and red tile roofs common to the other architectural styles indigenous to california and the american southwest but they have one distinguishing feature. High profile barrels create distinctive shadows that change the look and feel of the roof as the sun moves in the sky making a striking statement of texture and style. Mission style with pans and covers.

The missions style of necessity and security evolved around an enclosed courtyard using massive adobe walls with broad unadorned plaster surfaces limited fenestration and door piercing low pitched roofs with projecting wide eaves and non flammable clay roof tiles and thick arches springing from piers.