With their open floor plans and connection to nature, these post-war gems are all the rage once again. Mardis Coers / Getty For more than 80 years, ranch-style homes have drawn us in with their ...

There’s a lot to love about the common ranch-style house. Most of the horizontal, ground-hugging ramblers built for middle-class families in the 1950s and 1960s boom years had hardwood floors, brick ...

Editor's note: Alice Charron is a Realtor with Keller Williams. An earlier version of this story misspelled her name. Despite the fact that most home buyers interested in purchasing a home in ...

A humble floor plan quietly became the heart of American family life.