Whats a Ranch Style house?
The formal definition of the style couldn’t get more basic. The American Heritage® Dictionary defines the Ranch as a “rectangular, one-story house with a low-pitched roof.” Wikipedia gets a little fancier: The Ranch is “a common term used to describe a single story house often built with a very horizontal appearance. The entrance is often low to the surrounding grade of land, although some with basements have a more elevated entrance and are called ‘raised ranches.’ They are occasionally surrounded by large amounts of land, but in the second half of the 20th century it was commonly used as a style in tract developements.” The first Ranch Style house… was built in 1932 in San Diego, CA, by building designer Cliff May, but the style wasn’t widely built until Abraham Levitt and Sons used it in their famous planned community called Levittown, in Pennsylvania, beginning in the late 1940s. Speaking of tract developments… the Levitts were among the first to build tract housing on a wide s
