Eau Claire: 1-3 and 11-17 Room Houses
The
comparison of houses with the smallest and largest number of rooms is very
interesting. Notice the largest number of the smallest houses were
built in the 1920s whereas the largest number of the largest houses were
built in the 1880s. The two patterns reflect the change in the distribution
and standard of living of the richest and poorest segments of the Eau Claire
community. In the 19th century the very rich built mansions much larger
than they do today. With the collapse of the lumber industry and continuing
into the Great Depression, small houses became disproportionally more
important--especially in the 1910s - 1930s.
Click on each size to see the patterns over the
decades.
Tim James created on: June 28, 1996.
Graphs by Brian Meyer,
Preston Johnson, and Tanya Jorgenson on June 9,
1997.
