Adobe Revival Beckons as Builders Return to the Mud

Greg HARMAN
San Antonio Current | July 20, 2012
"You know how the good Lord wasn't popular in his hometown? That's kind of the way it is with us." So says Lawrence Jetter from his Southside earth-building compound about the near complete absence of adobe buildings in San Antonio.

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