When I was in high school more than a few decades ago, in drafting class we were given an assignment, design a three bedroom house with less than a thousand square feet. It wasn't that difficult, I have been in lots of older homes that were in that class. In the new suburbs I grew up in,during the 1950s, the homes were 1200 to 1300 square feet .The big fancy places were mostly under 2000. Those big fancy places weren't in our neighbourhood. Now look at the sizes .
