Photo post: Wartime housing tract

I mentioned in a previous post that there's a tract of houses in the neighborhood that were put up in the early 1940s and may therefore just possibly be the first use of the "California method" that was widely applied after the war: it was an assembly line, with a sawmill on-site and the same components for a group of houses left at each so that a team could go from one to the next and do the same stage of work that day. They must have been war workers' housing, and are larger than many from the first flush of post-war tracts: they all seem to have been built with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Anyway, I thought I'd document them before any more get replaced by multiple-unit dwellings or mini-mansions.

First, houses like this 1920 one may have served as a model:




because there are houses in the tract like this (1942):



( Many more houses. )