Looking Around: Transitional Plans

Side-Gabled house in Muleshoe, Texas. 
One of the many vintage houses featured at the Muleshoe Heritage Center.

(McMansion Hell) Hello Friends! Today we’ll be talking about the detached houses that marked the period when the railroads were just beginning to expand, and resources started reaching more and more remote locations. Sure, railroads and streetcars were expanding, but modern mass-industrialization was still working out its kinks. Thus, transitionary. This period occurred for most localities between 1800 and 1860. Plans from this period would remain popular well into the 1910s, though the later four-square and bungalow plans would soon overtake them in popularity. Continued