Rachel's Mom sent us an interesting article about how the ranch style houses that became Ubiquitous in Tucson are getting old enough to be historic. I'm not totally sure I buy that all old ranch houses are worth preserving. I'm not even sure I buy the premise that the Ranch was anything more than a part of history, rather than something capital-H Historic. Still, Rachel and I have been flirting with the idea of making a very 1950's style home and pending a clerical error at the bank that awards us with a few million dollars, the only type of 1950's home we're going to get is a ranch home. So I guess that makes one ranch house in Tucson that I definitely will be interested in restoring. |