Editing Solvang, California (section)

===Danish-styled architecture===
Initially, most of Solvang's buildings were built in the same style as others in the area.<ref name="Dale">{{Cite news|last=Dale|first=Judith|date=March 6, 2020|title=Judith Dale: 1920s Solvang - Becoming Danish Capital of America|work=Santa Ynez Valley News|url=https://syvnews.com/b/judith-dale-1920s-solvang---becoming-danish-capital-of-america/article_7e8ef804-48b7-5cda-966b-36d8ec665f91.html|access-date=December 20, 2020}}</ref> The Lutheran church was the first to be based on Danish architecture and bears a close relationship to Danish equivalents. In 1931 [[Earl Petersen]], a local architect, gave the older buildings a new look, adding façades in so-called "Danish Provincial" style.<ref>Poul Husted,[https://archive.today/20120716004600/http://tgt.dk/guide/nordamerika/usa/californien/article67765.ece?page=1 "Er Solvang Danmark eller Disney?"], ''Turen går til''. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved September 13, 2010.</ref><ref>David and Marlere Macbeth,[http://www.macbethrealestate.com/Solvang/page_2182786.html "Solvang — Danish-Inspired".] Retrieved September 13, 2010.</ref> It was a Danish medieval [[:nb:Bindingsverk|bindingsverk]] design.{{sfn|Dittmer|Bates|2020|pp=155-156}} The pioneer of the Danish Provincial style was Ferdinand Sorensen, originally from Nebraska. In the mid-1940s, after returning to Solvang from a trip to Denmark, he first completed Møllebakken, his Danish-styled home, and then went on to build the first of the village's four windmills. But after World War II, interest grew in the concept of a "Danish Village". Buildings in the half-timbered style of Danish rural houses proliferated, creating a new tourist attraction.<ref name="elverhoj"/> While much was done to create an "authentic" Danish atmosphere in the town center, it has been pointed out by Scandinavians that fake thatched roofs and artificial timbering are largely a result of local interests in general rather than those of the Danish immigrants themselves. The older buildings have simply been restyled to look Danish even if there was nothing Danish about them originally.<ref>Irene Berg Sørensen,[http://videnskab.dk/content/dk/kultur/det_rigtige_danmark_skuffer_i_solvang "Det rigtige Danmark skuffer i Solvang"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090705184346/http://www.videnskab.dk/content/dk/kultur/det_rigtige_danmark_skuffer_i_solvang |date=July 5, 2009 }}, ''Videnskab.dk'', {{in lang|da}}. Retrieved September 18, 2010.</ref>