Adobe Gallery

Ruins of the Wiracocha Temple at Raqch'i, Peru

Built in the fifteenth century and considered by the historians to be one of the most audacious Inca constructions, the remarkable Wiracocha temple at Raqchi, 100m long and 20m wide is made of adobe walls built on top of volcanic stone foundations. These Pre-Columbian foundations display the Cyclopean polygonal masonry of the Incas - almost defying belief with the way the massive multi-faceted blocks fit together seamlessly. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Patio, House of Ramona, San Diego, California, USA

Patio, House of Ramona (Ramona's Marriage Place, Casa de Estudillo), Camulos Rancho, Old San Diego, California, USA. It is an historic adobe house, built by early settlers in 1827, and later made famous by Helen Hunt Jackson's popular novel, Ramona (1884). Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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Horno de Barro - Argentinian Mud Oven

Horno - a mud adobe-built outdoor oven used by Native Americans and early settlers of North America. Originally introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors, it was quickly adopted and carried to all Spanish-occupied lands. Quite common in the rural areas of Argentina (this example) and Uruguay, from colonial times to the present day, and it is called horno de barro ("mud oven"). On the reverse of this card is the line "Oven in the camp for making bread etc. etc." ! Date: 1903

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection