1940s-1950s, Post-War Boom

Homes of Moderate Cost
[Chicago, Ill.: National Plan Service, 1941].
EnvDesign NA7208.H66 1941 Rare

California Plan Book
San Francisco: Home Book Publishers, 1940s-60s
EnvDesign NA7127 .C18

The Homograf Planner, plan your own home the easy way
Invented and engineered by Arvid C. Petersen; designs and illustrations by Richard B. Pollman; plans by I.E. Palmquist.
Detroit: Homograf Planner Corp., 1948.
EnvDesign Rare NA7205 P448 1948

25 Post Modern Home Plans: complete with pictures, floor plans, materials, square foot areas; new ideas by famous architects
San Francisco: Home Book Publishers, [1946?].
EnvDesign Rare NA7235.C2 A15 1946

Small Home of Tomorrow
Paul R. Williams, A.I.A. Hollywood: Murray & Gee, inc., 1945.
EnvDesign Rare NA7127 .W54

New Homes for Today
Paul R. Williams. Hollywood: Murray & Gee, 1946.
EnvDesign Rare NA7127 .W53
 
Town and Country Homes
by Hiawatha T. Estes. Northridge, Calif.: Nationwide Plan Book Co., 1957.
EnvDesign NA7127 .T69 Rare

Sunset Homes for Western Living, from five years of Sunset
San Francisco: Lane Pub. Co. [1947].
EnvDesign NA7127 .S9 1947

Distinctive Small Homes, book five
Guy L. Rosebrook. Salinas, Ca: Roy Owen, Publisher, c1940.
EnvDesign Rare NA7127 .R73 1940

Western Ranch Houses by Cliff May
by the editorial staff of Sunset magazine and books, under the direction of Paul C. Johnson. Menlo Park, Calif.: Lane Pub. Co., 1958
EnvDsgn NA7127.S87 Rare: From the Henry H. Meyers Collection, Environmental Design Archives
 
Sunset Western Ranch Houses
Editorial staff of Sunset magazine, in collaboration with Cliff May. San Francisco: Lane Publishing Co., 1946.
EnvDesign Rare NA7127 .S86

A Sunset Book of Western Ranch Houses by Cliff May
Menlo Park: Lane Publishing, 1958.
EnvDesign Rare NA7127.S87, from the Henry H. Meyers Collection, Environmental Design Archives

Cliff May Homes brochure
Englewood, Co: Rocky Mountain Cliff May Homes, Inc., n.d.
Loaned by Daniel P. Gregory

Distinctive Small Homes: stock plans
Guy L. Rosebrook.
[San Leandro: Guy L. Rosebrook, Architect; 1950].
EnvDesign Rare NA7205 .R63 1950

Electricity in Your Home Plans
[Los Angeles: Angelus Press, 1944]  
EnvDesign Rare TK3285.E54 1944

Contains a full-page ad for Pacific Gas & Electric
 
Thrifty 2 and 3 Bedroom Homes
Los Angeles: Bungalowcraft, 1946.
EnvDesign Rare NA7239.B86 A4 1946

Homes of Moderate Cost
[Chicago: National Plan Service, 1941].
EnvDesign Rare NA7208 .H66 1941

Souvenir pictorial booklet of the Post-war House, Wilshire Blvd. at Highland Ave., Los Angeles
Fritz B. Burns Research Division for Housing. [Los Angeles] : Fritz B. Burns Research Division for Housing: 1946. Gift of Alfred Willis.
EnvDesign in process Rare, Gift of Alfred Willis

Fritz Bernard Burns (1899-1979) was a powerful real estate developer in Southern California. He was president of the Home Builders Association of Los Angeles in 1942 and of the National Association of Home Builders in 1945. The “Post-War House” of this booklet was a model home based on research and using new construction techniques and materials. “The Garden is a Living Room” was designed by the firm of Garret Eckbo, Robert Royston and Edward A. Williams, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

House for Cooperative Improvement Company
Alfred Charles Williams.
Environmental Design Archives, Alfred C. Williams Collection

Plan 105, 4 ½ rooms, Calif. modern
Alfred Charles Williams.
Environmental Design Archives, Alfred C. Williams Collection

Better Homes & Gardens Five Star Home Plan No. 2709
Meredith Publishing Company, 1956.
Environmental Design Archives, William W. Wurster/WBE Collection

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1940s-1950s, Post-War Boom