> The average American house size has more than doubled since the 1950s; it now stands at 2,349 square feet.
> Back in the 1950s and '60s, people thought it was normal for a family to have one bathroom, or for two or three growing boys to share a bedroom. Well-off people summered in tiny beach cottages on Cape Cod or off the coast of California
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> The average American house size has more than doubled since the 1950s; it now stands at 2,349 square feet.
> Back in the 1950s and '60s, people thought it was normal for a family to have one bathroom, or for two or three growing boys to share a bedroom. Well-off people summered in tiny beach cottages on Cape Cod or off the coast of California