Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This house exhibits most of the features of the style, such as long low profile and large windows. 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 ...
Orrin Thompson ranch style house. His typical house design was known as the rambler, or the ranch-style house; a modest one family house. Its style borrowed modern ideas that had been developed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School. The design emphasized horizontality, large windows, a relatively flattened roof, and eaves that extend ...
In Ojai, just 80 miles north of L.A., they found an old 1950s rambler—a western ranch house that once served as the centerpiece of a working cattle ranch. It reminded them of the homes of their ...
Dingbat building named "The Mary & Jane" with styled balconies A stucco box. In a 1998 Los Angeles Times editorial about the area's evolving standards for development, the birth of the dingbat is retold (as a cautionary tale): "By mid-century, a development-driven southern California was in full stride, paving its bean fields, leveling mountaintops, draining waterways and filling in wetlands ...
Alfred Levitt, still a teenager, became vice president of design and drafted plans for the first Levitt house, a six bedroom, two bathroom Tudor style home that sold for over $14,000 in 1929 (roughly $256,000 today). The Levitts sold 600 of these upper-middle-class homes, part of the Strathmore project, in four years during the Great Depression.
The house just changed hands for $2.55 million more than the price recorded in that deal. The mid-century modern-style house has five bedrooms and 6,333 square feet of living space, inside and out.
According to his son, [13] Eichler was inspired by a short period of time when the family lived in a Frank Lloyd Wright–designed house in Hillsborough. [14] Eichler was attracted to the style and decided to try to produce similar designs. Joseph Eichler used well-known architects to design both the site plans and the houses themselves.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us