| From 1900 to 1930 the Craftsman bungalow was one of the most popular house types across the United States. Scholarly research on bungalows is generally confined to larger metropolitan areas and the influence of elite architects. I demonstrate bungalows’ appeal to working- and middle-class residents of small towns and suburbs in the Pacific and Intermountain West by visualizing the spatial distribution of the houses and the economic distribution of their residents in Pocatello, Idaho; Missoula, Montana; and Pasadena, California. Analysis of 1920 federal census data shows that these bungalow residents represented a wide spectrum of economic groups from city leaders to business owners to unskilled laborers. The cities displayed little economic segregation: neighborhoods may skew toward the professional or the laborer, but their economic demographics show few appreciable patterns when mapped. These findings demonstrate the egalitarian appeal of the bungalow in the early twentieth-century Western United States. |