ranch style

Low, sprawling architecture

Ranch style describes a type of single-story house with a long, low profile, an open floor plan, and an attached garage—popular in American suburbs from the 1950s onward.

The term extends to food preparation, especially in Texas: ranch-style beans are pinto beans simmered with tomatoes, peppers, and spices.

They bought a ranch-style home in the suburbs.

Opposites
vertical structure

ranch stylehigh-rise

Multistory tall building

multi-story · two-story · skyscraper · split-level · tri-level

architectural formality

ranch styleVictorian

Of a prim era

Georgian · Colonial Revival · Queen Anne · Federal style · Beaux-Arts

Family

style, ranch, ranch house

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G