"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us."
                                                                                                                                    -Winston Churchill

The revolutionary Prairie School design, born as a reaction to European architecture and reformed by architects and developers into the "ranch" home, unified American culture in the 1950s and transformed how people live today.

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                                                                             Introduction