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Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [1] Sears Modern Homes were purchased primarily by customers in East Coast and Midwest states, but have been located as ...
Kit house. Kit houses, also known as mill-cut houses, pre-cut houses, ready-cut houses, mail order homes, or catalog homes, were a type of housing that was popular in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the first half of the 20th century. [1] Kit house manufacturers sold houses in many different plans and styles, from simple bungalows ...
Boxhill (Louisville) Boxhill, also called Winkworth, is a Georgian Revival house in Glenview, Kentucky, a small city east of Louisville, Kentucky. It was built in 1906 or 1910 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [2][1] As with other nearby mansions such as Lincliff, Boxhill reflects a period of Louisville history ...
By Bud Dietrich, AIA Kit houses were America's first mass-produced, prefab homes, sold by Sears, Montgomery Ward, Gordon Van Tine, Aladdin and a few others. The materials for these homes, ordered ...
March 11, 1971. White Hall State Historic Site is a 14-acre (5.7 ha) park in Richmond, Kentucky, southeast of Lexington. White Hall was home to two legendary Kentucky statesmen: General Green Clay and his son General Cassius Marcellus Clay, as well as suffragists Mary Barr Clay and Laura Clay. On April 12, 2011, White Hall was designated as a ...
1. Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument. Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument. More images. July 17, 1997. (#97000670) Old Crab Orchard Rd., 1 mile north of the junction of Kentucky Routes 39 and 80. 37°07′03″N 84°36′14″W / 37.1175°N 84.603889°W / 37.1175; -84.603889 (Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument) Somerset.
Category:Kit houses. Housing portal. Look up Kit house in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Catalog houses. The main article for this category is Kit house. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML. GPX (all coordinates)
Location. Hazard, Kentucky. Opened. 1940. The Mother Goose House is a bed and breakfast and monument in Hazard, Kentucky. In 1930, Hazard resident George Stacy took inspiration to build a home in the shape of a goose after his wife had skinned the body of one he had brought home for Thanksgiving. Construction started on the Mother Goose in 1935 ...