Dingbat (building)

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title: Dingbat (building)
text: A dingbat is a type of apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front parking. They remain widely in use today as “bastions of affordable shelter.” The dingbat, like the bungalow court, was a "popular and populist form of housing." Mainly found in Southern California, but also in Arizona, Flor
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description: Apartment type in the US's Sun Belt
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat_(building)
date created: 2005-11-26T05:38:47Z
date modified: 2024-08-28T22:02:46Z
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