1965 - Present: Neo-Mediterranean House Styles

Details from Spain, Italy, and other Mediterranean countries combine with North American ideas to create contemporary Mediterranean or Neo-Mediterranean homes.

Neo-Mediterranean is a Neoeclectic house style that incorporates a fanciful mix of details suggested by the architecture of Spain, Italy, and Greece, Morocco, and the Spanish Colonies. Realtors often call Neo-Mediterrean houses Mediterranean or Spanish style.

Neo-Mediterranean houses have many of these features:

• Low-pitched roof
• Red roof tiles
• Stucco siding
• Arches above doors, windows, or porches
• Heavy carved wooden doors

Watch a video to get a better sense of this style's typical characteristics.
A Neo-Mediterranean home may resemble one of these historic styles:

• Spanish Colonial
• Mission Revival
• Spanish Revival

However, Neo-Mediterranean houses are not careful recreations of any single historic style. If you remove the romantic decorative details, a Neo-Mediterranean home is more likely to resemble a no-nonsense, all-American Ranch or Raised Ranch.
Like all Neoeclectic houses, a Neo-Mediterranean home is usually constructed with modern-day materials such as vinyl siding, vinyl windows, asphalt roof shingles, and synthetic stucco and stone.