Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An adobe house may evoke images of the Southwest, serapes, and the twangy keening of an Ennio Morricone soundtrack for many ...

At its most basic, the phrase "adobe" actually refers to the method of building Pueblo-style homes, not the architectural style itself. Adobe is dried mud brick, traditionally made from compacted sand ...

In the two years Don Laverty and Valorie McClelland have owned their Poway home, they have tackled numerous projects from tiling bathroom walls to planting a cactus garden. Each task is a labor of ...

As the largest city in New Mexico, Albuquerque is one of the fastest-growing high-tech centers in the U.S. Yet you rarely see skyscrapers here. Instead you will find small, dirt-walled houses ...

An adobe-style home that looks plucked from the Southwestern desert and includes a boat house, riding facilities and an outdoor pool, is selling in the Denver suburbs. The property spans 7.24-acre in ...

When Bob Bailey picked out the historic mud adobe house he made his home in 1977, he had to imagine what it could be. It hardly resembled the three-room Spanish colonial that railroad engineer Harry C ...

A decision to tear down the historic adobe Paxton house in Escondido has no plan B. And the city needs the 42 condo units that will take its place. But the house, most recently known as Hacienda de ...