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... 1 A Model for Identifying and Evaluating the Historic Significance of Post-World War II Housing By 1945, the housing backlog that began in the Great Depression and accelerated during the war years had left approximately 3,600,000 families without homes. To address this deficit, new housing starts reached a total of 1,023,000 in 1946, increasing more than threefold over the prior year.1 As postwar residential construction continued, the number of new houses built in the period from 1946 to 1975 reached over 40 million.2 Many such houses are now or will soon be more than 50 years old and may be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (National Register)
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... 2The guidance for survey and evaluation builds upon the National Register Bulletin Historic Residential Suburbs, Guidelines for Evaluation and Documentation for the National Register of Historic Places to provide efficiencies in the survey and documentation of postwar singlefamily residences and address the challenges the ubiquity of vernacular homes of that era pose to the evaluation of their National Register eligibility. The most significant component of the survey methodology is a selective survey approach tailored for this resource type that focuses documentation and evaluation efforts on those resources that are more likely to meet National Register Criteria.

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