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The company sold an estimated 54,000 homes under the Gordon–Van Tine name, and provided the lumber for another 20,000 to Montgomery Ward company, who contracted with Gordon-Van Tine to supply materials for their identical line of Wardway homes, beginning in 1917.
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
From its plant in Columbus, Ohio (the former Curtiss-Wright factory), the corporation eventually constructed 2,498 Lustron homes between 1948 and 1950. [3] The houses sold for between $8,500 and $9,500, according to a March 1949 article in the Columbus Dispatch —about 25 percent less than comparable conventional housing.
The 1970s - In 1973 Wausau Homes broke ground on construction for a brand new 330,000-square-foot (31,000 m 2) facility in Rothschild, WI with enough capacity to produce 4,000 homes annually. The Rothschild plant was In addition to the new production facility, Wausau Homes needed to aid its builders in developing and growing.
During World War II, the factory was converted to produce aircraft engines and, ultimately, whole aircraft. Later, it became a specialist rubber works for a range of companies and produced a ...
The DuPont Country Club also includes the Dupont estate, Brantwyn, the childhood home of Pierre S. du Pont, IV. The home’s name is likely a derivative of the name Brandywine. The creek's name may be from an old Dutch word for brandy or gin, brandewijn, or from the name of an early mill owner, Andreas Brainwende or Brantwyn. [18]
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