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Stucco is an exterior plaster render, traditionally made from lime or Portland cement, sand and water and applied in multiple coats over masonry, lath or a modern synthetic backing, used for building exteriors since antiquity across the Mediterranean world and, later, colonial Spanish and Mission-style architecture in the Americas. Its finish can be troweled smooth, textured or sculpted into decorative relief, and its light color and reflectivity historically suited hot, sunny climates, part of why stucco became closely associated with Mediterranean, Spanish Colonial and Mission Revival architecture. Modern synthetic stucco systems, sometimes called exterior insulation and finish systems, add a rigid insulation layer and polymer-modified base and finish coats to the traditional cement-and-sand recipe, improving thermal performance but requiring careful detailing to avoid trapping moisture behind the cladding.

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Its walls carry some of the most elaborate carved stucco ornament and muqarnas in Islamic architecture.

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Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.
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Beverwyck Manor (Wikipedia)
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It is constructed of stucco over brick
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Gang House (Syracuse, New York) (Wikipedia)
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It is brick-clad on the first floor exterior, and stuccoed above.
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Hollyhock House - Wikipedia
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The exterior walls are made of hollow clay tiles, wood frames, and stucco, sloping inward at their tops.
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Price Tower (Wikipedia)
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The facade includes embossed copper spandrels and louvers, tinted glass windows, and poured stucco surfaces.
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Beall-Air (Wikipedia)
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Beall-Air, also known as the Colonel Lewis William Washington House, is a two-story stuccoed brick house in classical revival style near Halltown, West Virginia.
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Marin County Civic Center (Wikipedia)
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The main building has pink stucco walls with several levels of arches, topped by a blue roof.
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Cobble Villa (Wikipedia)
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It was built about 1912, and was a 2+1⁄2-story, asymmetrical Mediterranean Revival style brick and stuccoed dwelling.
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Fairview Plantation (Wikipedia)
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Fairview is a two-story stuccoed brick plantation house with flush end chimneys and a unique stepped gable at one gable end.
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Box Hill Estate (Wikipedia)
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It was built in 1885 and is a rambling, multi-gabled structure surfaced in pebblestone dashed stucco.
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Hervey Ely House (Wikipedia)
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It is a 2½ story brick structure covered in stucco.
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Blaine Smith House (Wikipedia)
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A steeply pitched gable roof, imitation half-timbering on the second floor, brick and stucco surfaces, and dormers on the front and rear are among the exterior features of the structure.
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Upper Shirley, Virginia (Wikipedia)
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It is a two-story, nearly square, stucco covered brick dwelling with an overhanging hipped roof.
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Hathaway (Tannersville, New York) (Wikipedia)
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It is constructed of concrete block coated in stucco.
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Wikipedia: Itsukushima Shrine
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Its walls are decorated in white stucco, and were constructed using a process requiring fifteen coats of white stucco, with vermilion woodwork.
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Oak Alley Plantation - Wikipedia
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Constructed of bricks made on the site, the 16" walls are finished with stucco on the exterior and painted white to resemble marble, and the interior is plastered.
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Nottoway Plantation - Wikipedia
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Howard situated the three-story wooden frame house, which includes a one-story rusticated stucco-covered brick base on a concrete foundation, to face east towards the Mississippi River.
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The Houmas, Wikipedia
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It is a Federal style two-story, brick building with end wall gables and chimneys and a stuccoed exterior.
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Camden Park Estate - Wikipedia
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It is built of stuccoed sandstock brick, with window and door architraves and other detailing of locally cut stone, including Marulan mudstone.
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Uncle Sam Plantation (Wikipedia)
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Also built of scored stucco over brick, they were stories tall and measured wide by deep.
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Selma (Leesburg, Virginia) (Wikipedia)
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The present Selma is a two and one half-story, hip-roofed, stuccoed brick mansion.
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Rocky Hill Castle (Wikipedia)
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The two-story house was a rectangular stuccoed brick structure over a raised basement.
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Wikipedia: Suzhou Museum
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The essence of the old city is represented in the sloping roofs, a traditional color palette of black, white, and gray and traditional white stucco walls.
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Florida Tropical House (Wikipedia)
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The exterior is covered with a lightweight concrete stucco painted in pink.
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Oscar Hammerstein II Farm (Wikipedia)
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The farmhouse was built in 1840, and is a three-story, three-bay, stuccoed masonry residence with a hipped roof.
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Steiner House (Wikipedia)
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Loos built his buildings with roughcast walls and used the stucco to form a protective skin over the bricks.
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Homeplace Plantation House (Wikipedia)
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The first floor is built out of stuccoed brick, as are the pillars that support the second level of the gallery.
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Longview Farm (Wikipedia)
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There were over 50 buildings at Longview and, with the exception of the log grandstand and clubhouse, all were built of stucco with red tile roofs. 2000 Italian workers lived in tents while building the foundations and sewer system.
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Dr. John R. Drish House (Wikipedia)
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The large stuccoed brick mansion was built at the center of a plantation on the edge of town for Dr.
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Allan Bank (Wikipedia)
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Allan Bank is designed in a "bleakly Italianate" style according to Pevsner, faced with scored stucco and roofed with slate; it has been described as "large, though not handsome".
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Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts (Wikipedia)
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The Rosen House is a stucco building rising two stories a poured concrete foundation with a red tiled roof in a variety of asymmetrical gable and hip configurations and irregular fenestration.
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Ellen Glasgow House (Wikipedia)
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It is a three-story stuccoed brick structure, with a hip roof.
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