Wild West Homes ?
daveso
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I see quite a few depictions of a wild west town, mainly consiting of a saloon, jail, church, hardware/store, etc...but where do the townspeople live? Do they just live in the saloon? They must have houses someplace?
Anybody see any?
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daveso There are the ones in the Wild West DAZ+ series: https://www.daz3d.com/wild-west-houses-1 and https://www.daz3d.com/wild-west-houses-2
thanks...I totally forgot about those.
I have some other suggestions also for either interior furniture or the shelters that folks across the Western United States might have lived in or lived with as they first took possession of land to building a second or third home upgrade as money and supplies became more available via trains.
https://www.daz3d.com/storm-shelter - on the plains many started with homes in the ground. Helped with surviving tornados and weather.
https://www.daz3d.com/woodland-place - mountain areas with forests had trees to fell and this could stretch across from the SE US to Rockies to Pacific NW. Search your Runtime for 'wood' or 'cabin' to see what you have already.
https://www.daz3d.com/wild-west-outhouse - no home would be without this necessary item in the backyard. Some areas of the US still have to use it.
https://www.daz3d.com/victorian-house - an older model but any Victorian house was being built in towns/cities in the West. Other styles, like the Painted Ladies of San Francisco are still in use and much loved. Families who made it rich in the Gold mines wanted to flaunt it.
Furniture for those homes, my father's family homesteaded in Iowa and many pieces like reflected below have been passed down to our current generations:
https://www.daz3d.com/victorian-secretaire
https://www.daz3d.com/victorian-desk-and-chair
https://www.daz3d.com/victorian-decor-3-iray
https://www.daz3d.com/victorian-decor-2-iray
https://www.daz3d.com/victorian-decor-1-iray
https://www.daz3d.com/timeless-victorian-bedroom
https://www.daz3d.com/the-blue-room-iray-for-victorian-decor-2-3
https://www.daz3d.com/symphony-for-reflections-victorian-bedroom
https://www.daz3d.com/reflections-victorian-desk
https://www.daz3d.com/reflections-victorian-bedroom
https://www.daz3d.com/victorian-decor-2-iray
Many families had land outside of the towns, so wagons and horses were musts, so https://www.daz3d.com/the-old-barn was the equivalent of our garages. The nice thing about this product is it has an aging morph.
as usual, I have all from the above list but 6 of the Victorian furniture items. yeah, i have no clue what i have in my livbrary until someone suggests something that I'm looking for.
FG Old West House has that frontier look and feel. (No exterior, but some useful furniture and props)
I remembered after I posted I had some sets from RPublishing and Collective3d that I bought on Rendo and while they come with garages that you might turn into stables(?), if you removed them, the houses are also typical of average town homes throughout the Western states as areas became more settled. One references the Sears Catelog kits. They are complete models.
https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/102255/modern-home-1-poser-ds
https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/108449/modern-home-2
My family lived in a similar house that was built in the late 1800s and there was a stables that was later turned into a single garage, but the block to mount the carriage in front of the house remained. I loved the clawfoot tub, but showers/baths in winter without HVAC is not fun, but is fast.
I keep forgetting the homes from the later 1800s are still copied today, and there are quite a few stll standing. I was thinking more of houses from probably that era but as the population moved westward. Even in old TV shows and stuff did they ever show where the people actually lived? I think a few lived above the stores and stuff, mainly the owners of the business, but there must have been actual houses all over the place. Stuff ghost townes are made of.
the ones in the Unreal Environments I have are basically a 2 storey wood square with a front porch and simple gabled roof
not really seen anything in DAZ store but in real life it's a common design, my own house a brick veneer version albeit single story
probably too boring to model
we call it colonial style here (my house a cheap housing trust 1950's replica)
are some here https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1lxLK
not for sale though, plenty on FAB if you can find them in that mess of a site
the products by this vendor are slowly finding their way over as DAZ+ items and include Wild West houses
https://www.fab.com/sellers/Enterables
Well from my experience a town in the West (or anywhere really) might start out as a tent group, clustered near a creek, river or beach, then as able, solid buildings, different pavings added when mud got too much. Western towns, same thing. Up and down the El Camino Real on the West Coast, communities grew-up around the Spanish Missions. That is how San Rafael in Marin County, CA was established. The main street had a mix of older 19th, 20th century commercial and government buildings, some later moved away down the highway over the hill. No drive-ins. The homes that were to the east of that road and around the mission and its school, were mostly 19th C. The ones to the west of it, more industrial buildings or 20th C homes. (This is a simplification of what I remember from 1969/70.) The high school was featured in one of George Lucas's films.
If you envision a main street, with small branches off of it growing later, unless someone institutes strict street/city planning, it might get crazy over years. You are right about the upper floors being housing or storage for a business. A saloon would have offered rooms if movies have anything slightly right about 'all' their services. Or just doubled as a hotel, until a real one was built. As wealth built up, the wooden structures might have been replaced with brick. When I was stationed in Oklahoma, I studied Black & White developing and went around SW OK photographing old structures, learning about an architect who specialized in a specific brick pattern. But in 1975, there were still many old 19th C buildings still in use, along with the homes. Unless they had been destroyed by tornados. And then they were replaced often by current styles, so a neighborhood could be a patchwork of different styles. As opposed to what is happening in historic neighborhoods in Denver now, where rich investors are buying 19th/early 20th C older homes, raising them to the ground and building glass & steel souless slot homes and selling them for over a million dollars. So Denver is losing a lot of its history every month.
When trains were laid near a town, that also had an affect on the housing/business dynamic. I would suggest looking up Chinatowns in the Western United States as the Chinese were very important to our history. As well as the Spanish Colonials who were absorbed into the US after the Mexican American War. These are two ethnic groups that have had a strong impact on my culture as a young child of the Western states (NM, CA).