“The individual house was often no more than one in a series of houses, yet it assumed to itself the values once accorded only the ancestral home, establishing itself as the temporary representation of the ideal permanent home...[T]raditional historical stylings politely ignored their transience and provided an architectural symbolism that spoke of stability and permanence.” (51)

(Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.)