In the two years Don Laverty and Valorie McClelland have owned their Poway home, they have tackled numerous projects from tiling bathroom walls to planting a cactus garden. Each task is a labor of ...

Here are a few historic adobe buildings in the Bay Area, some of which are open to the public or can be viewed from outside. Check websites, or call ahead for hours and admission prices (if any).

In Santa Fe, New Mexico, a nearly 200-year-old adobe mansion that was registered by the National Park Service as a historic structure in 1937 is on the market for a cool $12.5 million. As Mansion ...

Marlene Montoya, a Costa Rica expat and lover of all things adobe, understands that life and beauty come from dirt. After all, the Book of Genesis says, “God formed man of the dust of the ground, and ...

Clarification: Connie Weir’s recollection about the start of the Weir business differs from that of Cynthia Berryman, daughter of Ted Berryman. According to the Berryman family history, the original ...

When Bob Bailey picked out the historic mud adobe house he made his home in 1977, he had to imagine what it could be. It hardly resembled the three-room Spanish colonial that railroad engineer Harry C ...