Paseo de la Guerra, Spanish Colonial Revival building in downtown Santa Barbara, United States.
Paseo de la Guerra is a Spanish Colonial Revival building complex in downtown Santa Barbara featuring multiple connected structures with stucco walls, red tile roofs, and decorative ironwork. The heart of the site is an open courtyard around which shops, galleries, and offices are arranged.
Construction of the Casa de la Guerra, the adobe home of Californio rancher and civil servant José de la Guerra y Noriega, began in the 18th century. In the mid-20th century the adobe was integrated into an artisan and shops arcade designed in Spanish Colonial Revival style by architect Lutah Maria Riggs, an associate of George Washington Smith. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as El Paseo and Casa de la Guerra.
The complex takes its name from the Californio Guerra family of Santa Barbara; José de la Guerra y Noriega's adobe home, the Casa de la Guerra, stands within it. Since the mid-20th century the adobe has been joined to an arcade of artisans' workshops and shops, and the site now works as a museum and boutique mall.
You can explore the open courtyard during the day and visit the various shops and art galleries located throughout the complex. The location is central within the historic downtown area and is easily accessible on foot when you are visiting Santa Barbara's older neighborhoods.
The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as El Paseo and Casa de la Guerra. Its mid-20th-century arcade was designed by Lutah Maria Riggs, a local architect who worked as an associate of George Washington Smith.
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