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
“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.
