Ranch-style house
Ranch-style houses are a typical American design of single-family houses . The first ranch-style houses were built in the 1930s, their main construction period being in the 1950s and 1960s, when suburbs were increasingly emerging for the baby boomer generation . Because of the basic construction concept - one-story house with a simple construction plan - they are also seen as the successor to the Shotgun House . Their emergence can basically be seen with the accessibility of more and more sections of the population to automobiles and the availability of air conditioning systems.
Characteristic of ranch-style houses are, in addition to the single-storey structure, the asymmetrical design, which is often L-shaped, the simple arrangement of the rooms and the garage as an extension. They were usually built as a simple wooden structure. Ranch-style houses are criticized because they lack style.