stucco

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When I was 6, we moved into a three-bedroom, pale-green stucco ranch that my dad had built and landscaped in Riverside.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

At the heart of the compound is the original four-bedroom Spanish Revival mansion, defined by white stucco walls, hand-painted ceilings, and romantic courtyards.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

“There are some houses that are ready to put stucco on. They’ve got roofs and everything,” said the 64-year-old, a second-generation area resident.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

In his obituary for Gehry, Christopher Hawthorne described the studio as a “spare, even self-effacing stucco box, plain outside and filled with light and surprising spatial complexity inside.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

This fifth-floor apartment is indeed nicer than the second-floor one—the ceilings high and decorated with punched tin and stucco flourishes: fruits, flowers, banana leaves.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr