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  2. Ranch-style house - Wikipedia

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    Modern ranch homes designed for town or country, National Plan Service, 1951. Newest plans of ranch houses, farm buildings, motels, Authentic Publications, 1952. 72 low cost suburban-ranch homes, HomOgraf Company, 1952. Book of rambler and ranch-type homes: designs and floor plans for 31 practical homes, 3rd ed. Home Plan Book Co., 1953.

  3. RKO Forty Acres - Wikipedia

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    RKO Forty Acres was a film studio backlot in the United States, owned by RKO Pictures (and later Desilu Productions), located in Culver City, California.Best known as Forty Acres [1] and "the back forty," [2] it was also called "Desilu Culver," [3] the "RKO backlot," and "Pathé 40 Acre Ranch," depending on which studio owned the property at the time.

  4. House plan - Wikipedia

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    They illustrate how the home relates to the lot's boundaries and surroundings. Site plans should outline location of utility services, setback requirements, easements, location of driveways and walkways, and sometimes even topographical data that specifies the slope of the terrain. A floor plan [2] is an overhead view of the completed house. On ...

  5. Bungalow - Wikipedia

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    A ranch bungalow is a bungalow organized so that bedrooms are on one side and "public" areas (kitchen, living/dining/family rooms) are on the other side. If there is an attached garage, the garage is on the public side of the building so that a direct entrance is possible, when this is allowed by legislation.

  6. Lot and block survey system - Wikipedia

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    Each lot on the plat map is assigned an identifier, usually a number or letter. The plat map is then officially recorded with a government entity such as a city engineer or a recorder of deeds. This plan becomes the legal description of all the lots in the subdivision. A mere reference to the individual lot and the map's place of record is all ...

  7. Shotgun house - Wikipedia

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    Shotgun house in the Fifth Ward neighborhood of Houston, Texas, 1973, as pictured in a photo by Danny Lyon. A shotgun house is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than about 12 feet (3.5 m) wide, with rooms arranged one behind the other and doors at each end of the house.

  8. Elkhorn Ranch - Wikipedia

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    The Elkhorn Ranch was established by Theodore Roosevelt on the banks of the Little Missouri River 35 miles north of Medora, North Dakota in the summer of 1884. Roosevelt hired Bill Sewall [1] and Wilmot Dow, two Maine woodsmen, to run the ranch. Sewall and Dow built the ranch house, "a long, low house of logs," in the winter of 1884–1885.

  9. Ribbon farm - Wikipedia

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    The size of ribbon farms can vary from lot to lot and from place to place. In Illinois , these lots could be 1 ⁄ 4 mile (400 m) or more long and only 30–40 feet (9–12 m) wide. [ 1 ] Near Detroit , the ribbon farms were about 250 feet (75 m) wide and up to 3 miles (5 km) long. [ 5 ]