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The adobe fort quickly became the center of the Bent, St. Vrain Company's expanding trade empire, which included Fort Saint Vrain to the north and Fort Adobe to the south, along with company stores in New Mexico at Taos and Santa Fe.
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The Main Building of the fort is a two story adobe structure built between 1841 and 1843.
Water, heating, and sanitation facilities were at a minimum in the adobe buildings of the fort ; records reveal that troops suffered severely from dysentery and malaria and that supplies arrived irregularly over the Santa Fe Trail by wagon train.
In the 1853 the continued threat of attack by angry Utes, locally called the " Walker War " or the " Utah Valley War ", forced the settlers to build a adobe fort called the English Fort just north of the North Jordan Burying Ground in 1854.
By 1859 the adobe fort was dissolving into the mud from which it was created.
Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, gaining control of the region and the fort, but in 1835 the Mexican army moved to Sonoma leaving the castillo's adobe walls to crumble in the wind and rain.
File: Fort Union National Monument adobe. JPG |< center > Part of the remainder of the fort
After doing so, the Spanish colonials built an adobe fort with four towers in Guaymas, initially under the command of Captain Lorenzo Cancio.
The Bent-St. Vrain Company built Bent's Fort, an elaborate adobe fort, on the eastern Colorado plains along the Santa Fe Trail.
In the early 1830s Bent built an adobe fort, called Bent's Fort, along the Arkansas River in present-day Colorado.
The fort was surrounded by high adobe walls that extended for.
The missionaries built a adobe fort near a creek and used flood irrigation to water their crops, a process still used at the park.
adobe and quickly
Built of wood, the first permanent structure quickly flooded and was replaced by a larger adobe building in 1784.
Even though she faced a seemingly lost cause, when she learned of the 1928 condemnation of the adobe, she acted quickly to get a stay on the wrecking ball.
* 1572: Work on the third Cathedral began with the demolition of the adobe walls of the second cathedral, but the project was quickly abandoned because of the high cost.
adobe and became
He built an adobe dwelling in what is now El Cerrito, and became one of the first members of the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County.
The original adobe ranch home was gifted to Gage as a wedding dowry and it became known as the Gage Mansion.
The adobe was a stage coach stop and became the exchange point for mail going between north and south in the first regular mail route in California.
Wood construction replaced adobe, as American settlers moved in ; and during the Gold Rush years and following, the town became a haven for bandits and gamblers, and a dangerous and lawless place.
Peoples living on the plains remained largely nomadic ( some practiced agriculture for parts of the year ) and became adept leather workers as they hunted buffalo while people living in the arid southwest built adobe buildings, fired pottery, domesticated cotton, and wove cloth.
The old Plaza area became a forgotten remnant of the city's roots, and the remaining adobe and brick buildings within the Plaza area fell into disrepair as the civic center of the city shifted to present-day Temple and Main Streets.
* John Platts Home-a very early 1856 vernacular adobe house with an 1860 fired brick second story added when bricks first became available in Utah.
adobe and center
Its houses were made of adobe and cement, and its shops were located at the village center, on the western side of the road.
Many of the older buildings, especially in the town center have walls made of adobe, and many of the houses have small yards with flowers guarded by iron fences.
The adobe was once the center of the rancho.
Rancho del Cielo — the adobe house ( center ) that belonged to President and Mrs. Reagan, " Lake Lucky " ( right ), and the barn ( center, partially hidden ) for the horses.
The small adobe that now serves as the visitor center.
adobe and .
MacPherson boldly approached the fortified adobe house and demanded entrance.
The ten or more dangerous parties singled out for prosecution were still at large, and Pels realized that if these men entrenched themselves in their adobe houses, defending themselves through loopholes, it would be most difficult to capture them.
In hot climates, compared with wooden buildings, adobe buildings offer significant advantages due to their greater thermal mass, but they are known to be particularly susceptible to earthquake damage.
( Also, the Pueblo people built their adobe structures with handfuls or basketfuls of adobe, until the Spanish introduced them to the making of bricks.
The word adobe has existed for around 4, 000 years, with relatively little change in either pronunciation or meaning.
" This was borrowed into Arabic as al-tub ( الط ّ وب al " the " + tub " brick ") " brick ," which was assimilated into Old Spanish as adobe, still with the meaning " mud brick.
In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.
An adobe brick is a composite material made of clay mixed with water and an organic material such as straw or dung.
Depending on the form into which the mixture is pressed, adobe can encompass nearly any shape or size, provided drying time is even and the mixture includes reinforcement for larger bricks.
Experience has shown straw, cement, or manure added to a standard adobe mixture can all produce a stronger, more crack-resistant brick.
The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.
An adobe wall can serve as a significant heat reservoir due to the thermal properties inherent in the massive walls typical in adobe construction.
In tropical and other climates typified by hot days and cool nights, the high thermal mass of adobe levels out the heat transfer through the wall to the living space.
Thus, a well-planned adobe wall of the appropriate thickness is very effective at controlling inside temperature through the wide daily fluctuations typical of desert climates, a factor which has contributed to its longevity as a building material.
In addition, the exterior of an adobe wall can be covered with glass to increase heat collection.
When building an adobe structure, the ground should be compressed because the weight of adobe bricks is significantly greater than a frame house, and may cause cracking in the wall.
Each course is laid the whole length of the wall, overlapping at the corners on a layer of adobe mortar.
To protect the interior and exterior adobe wall, finishes can be applied, such as mud plaster, whitewash or stucco.
These finishes protect the adobe wall from water damage, but need to be reapplied periodically, or the walls can be finished with other nontraditional plasters providing longer protection.
The traditional adobe roof has been generally constructed using a mixture of soil / clay, water, sand, and other available organic materials.
The mixture was then formed and pressed into wood forms, producing rows of dried earth bricks that would then be laid across a support structure of wood and plastered into place with more adobe.
For a deeper understanding of adobe, one might examine a cob building.
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