what defines a ranch style home
Large custom ranch house built in 1966 in Bakersfield, California. This house exhibits most of the features of the style, note long low profile and large windows. Smaller ranch-style house in West Jordan, Utah, with brick exterior and side drop gable roof. Ranch (also known as; American ranch, California ranch, rambler or rancher) is a domestic architectural style originating in the United States. The ranch house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and minimal use of exterior and interior decoration. The houses fuse modernist ideas and styles with notions of the American Western period working ranches to create a very informal and casual living style.