[MassHistPres] McMansions

[William and Sheila King]

We have an architect friend in another state, whose practice we used to 
describe as involving "McMansions."  He now demurs from the use of that term 
and now calls them "Starter Castles."


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcia Starkey" <mdstarkey at crocker.com>
To: "MassHistPres" <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 9:20 PM
Subject: [MassHistPres] McMansions


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>
> McMansions in the News:
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> The North County Times (CA) relates that the city planning dept. denied an 
> architect approval to use the term "McMansions" in describing the 
> architectural style of his project. His first try was Spanish-colonial, 
> but the planners said he needed more recessed windows and iron railings, 
> so he went to McM. to which they said that the term has a negative 
> connotation and equates with cookie-cutter homes that don't mesh with the 
> surrounding homes, therefore they did not agree with that term.
>
> Marcia Starkey
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