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A horseshoe arch straight out of the architectural palette of North Africa and the Middle East frames an imposing door that leads to the Patio del Moro in Hollywood.  Designed in 1925 by Arthur and Nina Zwebell, it appears that Patio del Moro was constructed by builders versant in the Storybook style, a type of pseudo-historic architecture developed in Los Angeles in the early 1920s. The Storybook style uses special techniques to suggest artificial aging. In order to make Patio del Moro look centuries old, the builder made the door out of unfinished planks with iron studs, used flat Roman bricks in a slightly irregular pattern, and painted the rough stucco wall in a faux finish.