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2. Perkins Square Gazebo - Wikipedia

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   Perkins Square Gazebo is a historic gazebo located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is an eight-sided, cast iron , open structure of eclectic Victorian design. It was constructed in 1871 and located in a triangular-shaped park in West Baltimore. [ 2 ]

3. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   Unlike modular homes and prefabricated houses, which are built in sections at a factory, in a kit house every separate piece of framing lumber shipped was already cut to fit its particular place in the house, thus eliminating the need for measuring and cutting, and likewise the waste of time (especially in the days before power tools) and of ...

4. Gazebo - Wikipedia

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   A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal or turret-shaped, often built in a park, garden, or spacious public area. [1] Some are used on occasions as bandstands . The name is also now used for a tent like canopy structure with open sides used as partial shelter from sun and rain at outdoor events.

5. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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   The last "Modern Homes" catalog was issued in 1940. Although it is sometimes claimed that no Sears kit homes were built after 1940, Sears continued to offer pre-cut kit homes through 1941 and into early 1942. Advertisements for Sears Modern Homes appeared through May 1942.

6. List of house types - Wikipedia

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   Kit house: a type of pre-fabricated house made of pre-cut, numbered pieces of lumber. Sears Catalog Home: an owner-built "kit" houses that were sold by the Sears, Roebuck and Co. corporation via catalog orders from 1906 to 1940. Laneway house: a type of Canadian house that is constructed behind a normal single-family home that opens onto a back ...

7. George Franklin Barber - Wikipedia

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   George Franklin Barber (July 31, 1854 – February 17, 1915) was an American architect known for the house designs he marketed worldwide through mail-order catalogs. Barber was one of the most successful residential architects of the late Victorian period in the United States, [4] and his plans were used for houses in all 50 U.S. states, and in nations as far away as Japan and the Philippines. [4]