This architectural style refers to a subtype of Spanish and Mediterranean Revival styles. Common elements include colored tile work and wrought iron window grilles echoing the more elaborate Spanish prototypes. These were surface features applied over the standard balloon frames where stucco replaced wood as the exterior wall covering. 309 Alameda is an anchor building defining the southeastern entry to the Maple Park subdivision.

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235 Alameda employs elements of the Bungalow form in the triangular knee braces supporting the wide roof overhangs. 233 Alameda has lost its original tile roof but retains its interesting rhythms of repeated arched openings along the facade. 231 Alameda contains a dominant front gable with a large shaped and recessed plate glass window with a pair of vertical turned wood posts breaking the glazing into three sections.

This residence employs elements of the design and decorative vocabulary of Colonial Revival but in an eclectic and purely post World War II building scheme. Note the symmetry of the facade, multi pane windows and formal entry.

This architectural style, particularly fashionable in the 1920's and early 1930's, is loosely based on a variety of late medieval English prototypes, ranging from thatch-roofed folk cottages to grand manor houses. It is identified by steeply pitched roofs, usually side gabled with the facade dominated by one or more prominent cross gables, halt-timbering, tall narrow windows usually in multiple groups and with multi-pane glazing, and massive chimneys commonly crowned by decorative chimney pots. This residence was originally owned by Oran Shannon, a Salinas real estate and insurance dealer.

This architectural style refers to the rebirth of interest in the early English and Dutch houses of the Atlantic Seaboard that were reinterpreted after the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Common elements include palladian windows. swags and garlands, classical portico entries and small square or diamond-paned windows. Note wide horizontal shiplap siding, fluted pilasters supporting classical pediments above doors.