The McMansion Scale, Explained
I was recently struck by this house, offered by Sears in 1921:<p><a href="https://oklahomahousesbymail.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/sears-saratoga-1921.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://oklahomahousesbymail.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/sea...</a><p>What's crazy is the price: $47,085.20 in todays dollars.  This is with all finishing materials (including stained glass) & delivered (no cement or bricks).<p>It's an amazing house, and any old schlub could order it from good ol' Sears.<p>Something very bad happened in architecture around world war 2.