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Smaller ranch-style house in West Jordan, Utah, with brick exterior and side drop gable roof. Ranch (also known as American ranch, California ranch, rambler, or rancher) is a domestic architectural style that originated in the United States. The ranch-style house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout.
Enclosed shed rooms are also sometimes found at the front, although a shed-roof front porch is the most common form. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The breezeway through the center of the house is a unique feature, with rooms of the house opening into the breezeway.
The Gothic-arch design was featured on both the front and back cover of The Book of Barns - Honor-Bilt-Already Cut [a] catalog published by Sears Roebuck in 1918. It was the most popular roof design for barns sold by Sears. [7] In 1915, Sears sold a 42-by-60-foot (13 m × 18 m) Gothic-arch barn for $1,500.
11. Storehouse. South of the truck shed is a small, gabled building with exposed rafter ends and wide, vertical board siding. It was used to store fuels for the ranch. 12. Equipment barn. Adjacent to the storehouse is a long, low gable-roofed building with sliding doors on the north side whose estimated construction date is the 1940s. 13. Horse ...
The San Bernardino Ranch was established between 1822 and 1855. [20] On 2–3 December 1846, The Mormon Battalion passed through the San Bernardino Ranch. There they rested and recuperated near the ruins of the abandoned ranch house. [21] In 1886, John Horton Slaughter was elected sheriff of Cochise County. He would rather arrest a man than ...
The Double Diamond Dude Ranch was started in 1924 by Joseph Clark and Fran William, initially catering primarily to boys from Eastern families. [21] While most of its buildings were destroyed by a wildfire in 1985, the ranch's 1945 dining hall survives. [22] The area is now known as the Climbers Ranch, used as a base camp for mountain climbers ...
The project is called AVL Unpaved, a community-supported initiative with the goal of "building a network of multi-use natural surface trails that will help Asheville-area residents and visitors ...
It features the common features of most Creole cottages: separate entrance doors to each interior room, central chimney, raised basement, and is situated on the front property line. Creole architecture in the United States is present in buildings in Louisiana and elsewhere in the South, and also in the U.S. associated territories of Puerto Rico ...