Minimal Traditional

This style appeared after the Cape Cod and is typical of the horizontal look of the post-World War II suburbs. The floor plans are squarish, not rectangular as in the later California Ranch style. What is architecturally distinctive about this house?

From the front, this large version of the Minimal Traditional with its breeze way connecting 
the single-car garage to the house already looks similar to the later, rectangular California ranch.

Most Minimal Traditional houses have these features: 1 story with a squarish floor plan hipped roof small picture window detached garage, maybe with a breeze connecting to the house

This 1950s Minimal Traditional is an "infill" because it was built much later than the surrounding houses, as its 1880s-1890s Queen Anne neighbor shows.

Created by Randall Conklin on June 10, 1997; last revised on27 September 2005.