• Post-World War II Subdivision Forms and Instructions

• Lustron Bibliography
  A list of resources for learning more about the Lustron corporation and the steel homes they manufactured.

• Arapaho Hills Reconnaissance Survey Report, 2009 (PDF)
  A CLG-grant funded document providing contextual information and architectural details on 83 properties in Littleton, Colorado postwar subdivision.

• Historic Context of Littleton, Colorado, 1949-1967 (PDF)
  A CLG grant-funded document detailing municipal, commercial, industrial, and suburban development in Littleton, Colorado during the postwar period

• OAHP Recommended Minimum Standards for Identification & Evaluation of Postwar Subdivisions (PDF)

• National Register Bulletin: Historic Residential Suburbs-Guidelines for Evaluation and Documentation for the National Register of Historic Places
  A comprehensive look at historic context, survey and nomination topics for American suburban development from 1830 to 1960, not just the postwar period. Both an online version and an order form for hardcopies are available at the National Park Service web site.

• Database of the Annual Denver Area Parade of Homes 1953-1963 (PDF)
  This document, sorted by location and by year, facilitates visiting actual examples of postwar housing to study stylistic changes over time and examples of specific builders’ work.

• Selected Post-World War II Residential Architectural Styles and Building Types (PDF)
  This booklet includes new or revised entries for Usonian style and Minimal Traditional, Ranch, A-Frame, Bi-Level and Neo-Mansard types. The entries also appear in the online Guide to Colorado’s Historic Architecture and Engineering. Consultants are encouraged to begin using these styles and types for survey projects.  These styles and types are also listed individually in our Online Architecture Guide.

• Guide to Nominating a Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado (Publication #901, PDF)
  This publication offers guidance for planning and preparing historic district nominations. It is not specific to the postwar period.

• Atomic Ranch
  This contemporary shelter magazine is devoted to Ranch homes and all Mid-Century Modern topics. The Spring 2006 issue features an article about an H.B. Wolff & Company home in Denver’s Lynwood.

• Bibliography of Suggested Reading (PDF)
  A list of articles, books, survey reports, websites and other resources which will keep you reading for a long time.

• Article: “Evaluating the Significance of San Lorenzo Village, a Mid-Twentieth Century Suburban Community” from CRM, Summer 2005 (PDF)
  Article by California Department of Transportation environmental planner illustrates how social histories of community residents and its architectural manifestations are often ignored when focusing on original design and construction.

• Harvey Park South Architectural Features Recording Sheet (Reconnaissance Form) (PDF)
  This document introduces a simplified reconnaissance method to be used to record all properties within large scale postwar developments prior to selective intensive survey.

• Builder Biographies for Franklin Burns, K.C. Ensor, and Ted Hutchinson (PDFs)
  Staff have routinely gathered or prepared architect biographies (many have appeared in The Camera & Clipboard). Knowing about builders will be increasingly important for postwar developments. Biographies of three metro-area builders highlight their company and personal backgrounds plus known projects.

• Arapahoe Acres National Register Nomination (5AH.1434) (PDF)
  Well-documented nomination packet for first American postwar suburb listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

• Sheely Drive District: Fort Collins Local Landmark Nomination (PDF)
  Example of a local landmark nomination for a postwar neighborhood; designated in 2000.

• Driving Tour: Modern Neighborhoods of Denver’s Virginia Village (PDF)
  Get in the car to visit three Denver postwar neighborhoods. This tour was originally posted on the Mile-Hi Modern website.

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