Quickie: Wat does 'pre-war' mean to Americans?

I'm reading Karin Slaugter's Good Daughter, and one of the charachters has a condo in a pre-war building in Chelsea, Manhattan.

And even though it's totally unimportant to the plot, now I'm wondering which war that refers to.

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