adobe
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For decades, her adobe dwelling hosted waves of grandchildren and great-grandchildren as sons and daughters went back and forth, entrusting expanding broods to the matriarch.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
Eventually, however, the lush commons became something like adobe hills.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025
Pedersen had connected with Loescher, the architect, and was getting fired up about the possibility of rebuilding with adobe.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025
Today, the two-story adobe residence is a local, state and national historic landmark offering year-round exhibitions, educational programs and cultural events that explore the many identities of the West.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025
Not back in South El Paso, where he had first lived in a little apartment above a bar, then in a little adobe house that had a cesspool instead of a sewer.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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