Southwestern Adobe Dwelling and Railroad Siding (Circa 1926)

A weathered flat-roofed mud-brick adobe building with projecting log vigas and a young child in the doorway beside railroad tracks and a desert butte. — Southwestern Adobe Dwelling and Railroad Siding (Circa 1926) · Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

Documenting the historic vernacular architecture of the American Southwest during his travels between Texas and California, Donald A. Hall Sr. photographed this traditional sun-dried adobe brick building. The structure features projecting peeled-log vigas, mud plaster revealing underlying brick masonry, and a young child peeking from the timber doorframe. A municipal fire hydrant and nearby Southern Pacific railroad freight cars frame the building against a distant volcanic mountain peak.