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Montgomery Ward. Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a mail-order business and later a department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. The current Montgomery Ward Inc. is an online shopping and mail-order catalog retailer that started several years after the ...
Lustron houses are prefabricated enameled steel houses developed in the post- World War II era United States in response to the shortage of homes for returning G.I.s by Chicago industrialist and inventor Carl Strandlund. Considered low-maintenance and extremely durable, they were expected to attract modern families who might not have the time ...
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 to imposing ...
That’s the key to the Montgomery Ward warehouse that rose eight stories high at St. John and Belmont Avenues on Kansas City’s Northeast side in 1914. It wasn’t the first building that Aaron ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The National Register of Historic Places listings in Syracuse, New York are described below. There are 119 listed properties and districts in the city of Syracuse, including 19 business or public buildings, 13 historic districts, 6 churches, four school or university buildings, three parks, six apartment ...
The plantation and community were eventually absorbed by Birmingham, a city that Mudd helped establish after the war. 94000690. Atkins' Ridge. Greensboro. 32°41′27″N 87°34′36″W / . 32.69073°N 87.57666°W. / 32.69073; -87.57666 ( Atkins' Ridge) Hale. Built for John Atkins, a native of Virginia, in 1840.
Added to NRHP. August 30, 2007. The Moline Downtown Commercial Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Moline, Illinois, United States. Centered on 5th Avenue, it is roughly bounded by 12th Street to 18th Street, 4th Avenue to 7th Avenue. The distinct covers 33-acre (0.13 km 2) and includes 114 buildings. [2]
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 ...