Writers on the Ranch
The Ranch Style house has been much beloved and much maligned, and we discovered, much discussed.
"A boxy ranch-style house, it was the smallest in a neighborhood of nondescript houses. Ours was set apart, however, by those fourteen glass doors--seven double French doors really, but it felt more exotic to ... tell people we had fourteen glass doors." - Carolyn Krauss, "The Glass House"
This is your new home: A boxy 
ranch-style
house on a block of boxy ranch-style houses, identical but for their
different shades of off-white and their trim and their shutters." -
Daniel Leroy, "To
Establish A Home"
"The house I grew up in, a featureless boxy ranch from the 1960's.... " Bruce Maki, Hammerzone.com
"In the past sixty years we have come full circle and the American housewife is once again trapped in a squirrel cage. If the cage is now a modern plate-glass-and-broadloom ranch house...the situation is no less painful than when her grandmother sat over an embroidery hoop...and muttered angrily about women's rights." Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
If you run across an interesting literary reference to Ranch Style houses, tell us about it! Send us an e-mail with the reference and URL, if you have one, to feedback@ranchrevival.com