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Appreciating the Classic American Ranch Home...

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From the book Ranch House Style by Katherine Ann Samon:

An appreciation for simpler, indigenous buildings was growing, helped by the Historic American Building Survey, a 1930s make-work project for architects and draftsmen that required them to create drawings of historic buildings throughout the country. "It brought them in firsthand contact with significant historic buildings in whatever part of the country they happened to be working in," Stephen Fox (an architectural historian, a fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas, and a lecturer at Rice University and the University of Houston), "and often made architects aware for the first time of their own local building traditions." Vernacular buildings (simple homes, farms and ranches) gained a new respect that would show up in the design, construction, and invention of modern ranch houses. The Historic American Building Survey presaged the turning inward, away from Europe and toward a new American-born style of architecture and design that helped shape American modernism....


At the time when ranch-style houses were created, in the late 1920s and the 1930s, they were considered a radical new way of living, with their open plans and the omission of formal rooms, and often the elimination of some interior walls. Their unassuming front facades, while attractive, were a puzzle, projecting no social or financial ranking. The design liberated the way Americans thought about houses - and the way they lived in them. Even the most stellar ranch appeared unconcerned with status.

Instead, the goal was to connect the people within and to induce them to lead expansive, open-minded lives. With low-key front facades providing privacy from the street, the house opened up completely in back - a radical move, creating a new way of living, inside and outside, by eliminating the division between the two spaces. "The principle concern in the design of the ranch house was with the quality and nature of lives. The ranch was an invitation to live intertwined with one's family and with the out of doors," says Kevin S. Alter, Sid W. Richardson Centennial Professor of Architecture and associate dean of architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

The ease of informal ranch living is what makes this architectural style endure, along with a spirit-soothing sense that it is part of the American land, rather than towering over its site or being plopped onto it. It is a form that was created in the United States, specifically for the American family. And, typical of its open-minded mission, it continues to develop.