Scratch-built and painted, that fence costs about $2,500, ... The white picket fence is so simple—a few slats affixed to horizontal rails, a gate or two—as to invite endless interpretation.

Does your personal version of the American dream still include a house with a white picket fence? Then perhaps one of these historic fence-rimmed properties will pique your interest. While white ...

Picket fences traditionally have been constructed of wood and painted white. While wood has been the primary construction material, not all picket fences are or need to be white.

A white picket fence was easy shorthand for fictional families in film and on television: Upper middle-class, prosperous, mannered. Neighborhoods wanted to reflect the kind of wholesomeness ...