If the preferred architectural style to please the Doughboys was Banker's
Tudor or Spanish Colonial, their sons and daughter's came to adore those suburban dwellings called Ranch Houses (also called "California ranch", "rambler" or "rancher"). Between the late Forties on through the Seventies millions of these houses would be built, with the more expansive "L-shaped" version appearing in the mid-1950s.
The growing American middle class of the time considered them to be the high-water mark of good taste.