Cape
Cod houses were a very popular house style for young families, especially after
World War II. Indeed, they were frequently called
GI (government issue) houses, because after World War
II the federal government provided low
interest rates and guaranteed mortgages to returning soldiers for the purchase
of houses.
The earliest post-WWII suburbs are filled with Cape Cod houses. The largest concentration of these houses in Eau Claire are in Putnam Heights. But they are found in older neighborhoods as "fill-ins" or were even built before WWII.
Cape Cod style houses re-appeared in the later suburbs of the 1980s and beyond, which we call Suburban Cape Cod.
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