The vernacular design of southern Spain’s Andalusia region were rediscovered by architecture students after the outbreak of The Great War in 1914 disrupted their customary of tours of central Europe. Spain and the Basque region about the Pyrenees remained war-free, and many a student’s Grand Tour was accordingly rerouted there. What they found was a largely uncelebrated but eminently livable vernacular building style, one whose suitability to the Mediterranean climate might be equally valid in warmer climates throughout the United States. Los Angeles proved the most obvious candidate for such designs, and Andalusian-inspired architecture flourished there during the mid-to-late Twenties. This charming example, probably dating from around 1928, features a number of details gathered from the Andalusian vernacular: the projecting balconies with their square columns supporting clay-tiled shed roofs, variously carried on corbels or large brackets; the balustrades with their X-motif of clay tiles, characteristically repeated in the chimney cap as well as the cornice of the tower; the outside staircases, frequently with stepped balustrades as in the right example; the short roof overhang; the parabolic front window; and lastly the tiny mirador or balcony set in the square tower. This vocabulary provided great design flexibility for Los Angeles architects, just as it had for their Andalusian counterparts over the centuries, and such buildings soon became a familiar sight in the booming neighborhoods of 1920s Los Angeles.