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    At Home in the 1920s

    Aug 21, 2017 4 minutes
    WRITTEN BY David Masello

    The Roaring Twenties. The Jazz Age. Couples really were doing the Charleston and F. Scott Fitzgerald was chronicling the real-life goings-on of the privileged class while “flappers’” dresses rose above the knee. The 1920s in America were among the most active and creative years in our history, but the most enduring record of those years is its houses. Residences from that time still define swathes of suburban America and architects grounded in their architectural history continue to emulate the styles made popular then.

    Elite and fashionable American suburbs developed as commuter rail lines reached out, and many of those towns embraced the

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