HMS President (1918) , formerly HMS Saxifrage, is a Flower-class anti-submarine Q-Ship completed in 1918, and is one of the last three surviving warships of the Royal Navy built during the First World War, (along with the 1914 Light cruiserHMS Caroline in Belfast, and the 1915 Monitor HMS M33 in Portsmouth dockyard).
The average single-family home built today is 2,657 square feet, more than twice the average single-family home built in 1920. To determine how homes have changed over the past century, 24/7 Wall St. estimated the size of a newly constructed single-family house between 1920 and 2014.
Frisby's house is big, but it's not alone. The average American house size has more than doubled since the 1950s; it now stands at 2,349 square feet. Whether it's a McMansion in a wealthy neighborhood, or a bigger, cheaper house in the exurbs, the move toward ever large homes has been accelerating for years. Consider: Back in the 1950s and '60s, people thought it was normal for a family to have one bathroom, or for two or three growing boys to share a bedroom.