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The E. Payne Palmer House is a Gordon-Van Tine "Brentwood" model of a catalog kit house, or pre-cut house, that was built in 1925 on Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona.. The Colonial Revival style "Brentwood" kit house was featured on the cover of the Gordon-Van Tine catalog from the mid to late 1920s.
Leisure World is a gated, 55+ adult age restricted community [1] located on a county island, in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The community is sovereign to, and surrounded by, the city of Mesa. Established in 1973, the community consists of nearly 500 condominiums and over 2100 single family residences (2,664 homes total). [2]
The firm changed its name to UDC Homes in 1986; the next year, it completed a move of its corporate headquarters to Tempe, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. UDC was a highly productive builder, the ninth-largest in the U.S. by 1992; it was the second-largest in Phoenix, a market that represented most of its revenues, and the third-largest in ...
Arizona has long been known as one of the country's most popular retirement destinations because of its warm, dry climate and wide-open spaces. It was a pioneer in senior-only communities, having ...
The most infamous 55-plus community, Central Florida’s The Villages, is the world’s largest at roughly 32 square miles — an area larger than San Francisco.
Cover of the 1916 catalog of Gordon-Van Tine kit house plans A modest bungalow-style kit house plan offered by Harris Homes in 1920 A Colonial Revival kit home offered by Sterling Homes in 1916 Cover of a 1922 catalog published by Gordon-Van Tine, showing building materials being unloaded from a boxcar Illustration of kit home materials loaded in a boxcar from a 1952 Aladdin catalogue
But retirement landscapes in Arizona communities have already been dramatically altered, from tax policy to healthcare reforms, by the new administration’s agenda. For the state’s 65-and-older ...
In the United States, several companies, including Sears Catalog Homes, began offering mail-order kit homes between 1902 and 1910. [2] The Forest Products Laboratory, a division of the U.S. Forest Service, put extensive research into prefabricated homes in the 1930s, including building one for the 1935 Madison Home Show. [3]