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  The Florida Home: Modern Living, 1945-1965

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Norman Giller and other postwar architects perceived military projects as a testing ground for new housing plans and types. Giller's Lieutenant's and Captain's House at the Homestead Air Force Base is an updating of the Florida vernacular dogtrot house in which the central open area becomes a carport.

Courtesy of Giller & Giller, Inc.

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