Ranch

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Ranch
Macao Ct., Copper Creek, Plano 1
One-story Ranch style homes are very understated
with their long, low profile.
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• Ranch Style houses have many of these features
• Low pitched gable roof with deep-set eaves
• Horizontal, rambling layout Long, narrow, and
  low to the ground
• Asymmetrical
• Large windows double-hung, sliding, and picture
  
• Sliding glass doors leading out to patio
• Simple open floor plans
• Wood or brick exterior
• Lack decorative detailing, aside from decorative
  shutters and porch-roof supports
• Split-level Ranch homes common in hilly areas

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Ranch Style Homes in Our Area
Country Place, Copper Creek, Plano 1
Ports OCall, Copper Creek, Plano 1
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Shed
Azurite Drive, Copper Creek, Plano 1
Shed style homes are a modern interpretation of
the Ranch style with dramatic single-slope roofs.
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• Shed Style houses have many of these features
• Single-slope rooflines with medium pitch
• Deep-set eaves
• Simple floor plans often have a C-shaped
  footprint
• Asymmetrical
• Large windows double-hung, sliding, and picture
  
• Sliding glass doors leading out to patio
• Emphasis on openness and efficient use of space
• Lack decorative detailing, aside from decorative
  shutters and porch-roof supports

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Shed Style Homes in Our Area
Country Place Drive, Copper Creek, Plano 1
Warren Court, Copper Creek, Plano 1
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Postmodern
3509-3511 Springbrook Street, Dallas Lionel
Morrison 2
Postmodern homes can be unique, whimsical, and
surprising. They are Modernists with a sense of
humor.
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• Postmodern houses have many of these features
• Developed as a reaction to the stark seriousness
  of the Modernist International style
• Sense of "anything goes
• Exaggerated or abstract traditional detailing
• Sometimes very colorful
• Familiar shapes used in surprising ways or
  contexts.
• Details are often simply painted on
• Smooth surfaces are favored, concrete or stucco
• Memphis is a similar style

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Examples of the Postmodern Style
Silver Falls Drive, Starwood, Frisco 1
4102 4110 Douglas Avenue, Dallas2 Arquitectonica
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Contemporary
Cedar Falls, Lakeside on Preston, Plano 1
Contemporary homes take traditional forms and
update them with modern details and materials.
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• Contemporary houses have many of these features
• Often use stucco (EIFS) exterior walls.
• Uses round or unusually-shaped windows
• Many large windows, sometimes forming a glass
  wall
• Front door is a focal point
• Minimal decorative detail or trim, usually also
  in stucco
• Glass block accents, especially in bathrooms
• Low pitched roofs, often of metal.

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Contemporary Homes inOur Area
Lakeside on Preston, Plano, Texas 1
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Texas Regional
Texas Regional Contemporary, Jessica Drive,
Starwood, Frisco 1
These homes are a Texas twist on modern,
contemporary, and traditional styles with
regional shapes and textures.
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• Texas Regional houses have many of these
  features
• Often use Austin stone or other native stone
• Neutral earth-toned colors used
• Porches and overhangs provide shaded areas
• Rough cedar or other wood used in porches and
  overhangs
• Often use native plants in landscaping
• Minimal decorative detail or trim
• Low pitched roofs, often of metal.

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Examples of Texas Regional Styles
Texas Regional Traditional Orchard Park
Drive Starwood, Frisco 1
Regional Traditional Starwood, Frisco 2
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Unusual Houses

• These homes are strange, odd, and extraordinary.
  Most dont fit the definition of a specific
  style, and all are worth notice.
• The Underground House, Parker
• Geodesic Homes, Lucas and
• Turtle Creek House, Highland Park
• Hobbit House, Highland Park
• The Powerhouse, Dallas
• Kovandovitch House

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The Underground House Sycamore Lane, Parker 1
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Geodesic Home Country Club Drive, Lucas 1
Starship Pegasus Concrete dome construction South
of Waxahachie 1
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Turtle Creek House, 5 Willowood, Highland Park,
by Antoine Predock 5 This Regional Modern
masterpiece, featured in Architectural Digest,
features a limestone cliff with a tunnel entry
and a sky ramp for birdwatching
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The Hobbit House 4200 Armstrong, Highland Park
2 Also called the Hansel and Gretel House, this
home features a roof of hand-cut copper shingles
that were acid-washed to develop the green
patina. Supposedly the city would not allow the
thatch roof that was originally planned.
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The Powerhouse 3321 Armstrong Avenue, Dallas 2 A
former Dallas Power and Light substation,
converted into a home. Still has some of the
original equipment used as sculpture, and has one
of the old neon signs of Sparky hung on an
exterior wall
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The Kovandovitch House 523 Eads Avenue, Oak Cliff
2 This reinforced concrete structure, built by
immigrant resauranteur Joe Kovandovitch, has
overlooked downtown since 1914.
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Citations

• Images, S. Sutphen
• Images, Dallas Central Appraisal District,
  http//www.dallascad.org
• Images, Dallas Sights, http//watermelon-kid.com/d
  allas-sights/ds-index.htm
• Images, Dallas County Historical Society,
  http//www.dallaschc.org/
• Images, Turtle Creek House, http//www.predock.com
  /turtle.html
• McAlester, Virginia and Lee A Field Guide to
  American Houses, Alfred A. Knopf. 2003.

• Print Resources
• The American Institute of Architects Guide to
  Dallas Architecture Dallas Chapter, AIA, Larry
  Fuller, Editor McGraw-Hill, 1999
• McAlester, Virginia and Lee A Field Guide to
  American Houses, Alfred A. Knopf. 2003.

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Online Resources

• National Association of Realtors, Architecture
  Guide, Realtor Magazine Online
  http//www.realtor.org/rmomag.NSF/pages/archindex?
  OpenDocument last visited 1/05.
• Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs
  Division, Historic American Buildings
  Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
  http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/
  index.html
• Boston College, A Digital Archive of American
  Architecture http//www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fna
  rt/fa267/contents.html
• Randy Juster, Decopix http//www.decopix.com/dire
  ctory.html
• Dr. Tom Paradis, Architectural Styles of America
  http//jan.ucc.nau.edu/7Etwp/architecture/
• Dallas Central Appraisal District, DCAD Find
  Property by Address, http//www.dallascad.org/Sear
  chAddr.aspx
• Stephen Butler, Dallas Sights, http//watermelon-k
  id.com/dallas-sights/ds-index.htm
• Dallas County Historical Commission,
  http//www.dallaschc.org/
• Martin House Restoration Corporation, Darwin D.
  Martin House Complex Tour the Complex,
  http//www.darwinmartinhouse.org/history/site-tour
  /Welcome.html