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2. American System-Built Homes - Wikipedia

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   The American System-Built Homes were modest houses in a series designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. They were developed between 1911 and 1917 to fulfill his interest in affordable housing but were sold commercially for just 14 months. The Wright archives include 973 drawings and hundreds of reference materials, the largest collection of ...

3. Frank Lloyd Wright - Wikipedia

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   Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and mentoring hundreds ...

4. The American Woman's Home - Wikipedia

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   The American Woman’s Home is a highly detailed manual regarding the ideal American home's construction, design, layout, and decoration. The book includes diagrams and explanations of floor plans, furniture layouts for each room, home appliance choices, and furniture and decor creation.

5. Ranch-style house - Wikipedia

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   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. The style fused modernist ideas and styles with notions of the American Western period of wide open ...

6. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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   Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [1] Sears Modern Homes were purchased primarily by customers in East Coast and Midwest states, but have been located as ...

7. List of house types - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of house types. Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or single-family detached homes and various types of attached or multi-family residential dwellings. Both may vary greatly in scale and the amount of accommodation provided.

8. American Craftsman - Wikipedia

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   American Craftsman. American Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century. Its immediate ancestors in American architecture are the Shingle style, which began ...

9. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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   This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses .