Primarily found in the California coastal zone from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, this regional variant of the Beaux Arts Neoclassical style was popular in the American Country Place Era (late 19th century through the Great Depression). Due to the area’s Mediterranean climate, these designs benefited from an exceptionally large and internationally diverse plant palette that ranged from old roses and bougainvillea to citrus, palm trees, cactii and cycads. It typically employed Beaux Arts/Neoclassical design plans, forms, and elements, often from Italian Renaissance/Baroque and Islamic-era Spanish “Mediterranean” prototypes, sometimes pulling from multiple sources on a single property. Along with Lockwood de Forest, Jr., such noted designers as Paul Thiene, A.E. Hansen, and Charles Gibbs Adams popularized this style.