In my historical fantasy novel
Gods of Jade and Shadow, a young woman takes a road trip with a Mayan god across Mexico during the 1920s. Their ultimate destination is a hotel by the seaside in Baja California. The hotel is inspired by a famous Mexican resort called Agua Caliente (literally Hot Water, named after the hot springs in the area), which for a few years was as ritzy as Monte Carlo.
In the novel, the architecture of my imaginary hotel follows the Mayan Revival look that became popular during the Roaring Twenties — the Fisher Building in Detroit and the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles were both designed in that style. The Agua Caliente hotel had less of a modern edge. It was a bit Disneyland-ish, attempting to evoke an “old Mexico” which had never really existed...