Title: Architectural Styles, American Homes From 1600 to Today
Headings: Influences on American Home Styles, 1600 to Today
Influences on American Home Styles, 1600 to Today
American Residential Architecture in a Nutshell
American Colonial House Styles
Neoclassicism After the Revolution, 1780-1860
The Victorian Era
Gilded Age 1880-1929
Wright's Influence
Indian Bungalow Influences
Early 20th Century Style Revivals
Mid-20th Century Boom
"Neo" Houses, 1965 to the Present
Immigrant Influences
Modernist Houses
Native American Influences
Homestead Houses
Industrial Prefabrication
The Influence of Science
Tiny House Movement

Content: Mid-20th Century Boom
Midcentury American Home. Jason Sanqui/Moment Mobile/Getty Images
During the Great Depression, the building industry struggled. From the Stock Market crash in 1929 until the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, those Americans who could afford new houses moved toward increasingly simple styles. After the wars ended in 1945, G.I. soldiers returned to the U.S. to build families and the suburbs. As soldiers returned from World War II, real estate developers raced to meet the rising demand for inexpensive housing. Mid-century homes from roughly 1930 until 1970 included the affordable Minimal Traditional style, the Ranch, and the beloved Cape Cod house style. These designs became the mainstays of the expanding suburbs in developments such as Levittown (in both New York and Pennsylvania). Building trends became responsive to federal legislation— the GI Bill in 1944 helped build America's great suburbs and the creation of the interstate highway system by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 made it possible for people to not live where they worked. "Neo" Houses, 1965 to the Present
America's Neo-Eclectic Mix of House Styles. J.Castro/Moment Mobile/Getty Images (cropped)
Neo means new.