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Swiss chalet style (German: Schweizerstil, Norwegian: Sveitserstil) is an architectural style of Late Historicism, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe. The style refers to traditional building designs characterised by widely projecting roofs and facades richly decorated with ...
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Francis Fleetwood was born on June 17, 1946, in Santiago, Chile. [1] [2] His father, Harvey Fleetwood, was a banker. [1] His mother, Maria Freile, was a psychoanalyst. [1] He had a brother, Blake, and two sisters, Carmen and Charlotte. [1] The family moved to the United States in 1948, settling in New York. [1]
[15] [14] Each year from 1989 through 1992, Clayton Homes was named on the Forbes list of the best small companies in America. [16] Kevin Clayton, Jim Clayton's son, took over the company in 1999. [12] Kevin Clayton had joined Clayton Homes in the 1980s and held several leadership roles in the company and its subsidiaries before becoming CEO. [17]
The chalet first appeared in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings where it spread to France and then throughout Europe. The Swiss chalet style became a symbol of a simple, pastoral life built on democracy, freedom and a connection with nature. The wide variety of local styles and building materials was reduced to a wooden cottage with a gently ...
Fleetwood became a public company in 1965, reporting annual sales of $18.5 million. [2] The company became part of the Fortune 500 in 1973, remaining there for nearly three decades. [3] By 1989, Fleetwood RVs sales reached the one billion dollar milestone; five years later, it hit the same milestone in its sales of manufactured homes. [3]
2500 South Van Buren Street, Amarillo, 1935 2200 South Ong Street, Amarillo, 1936 The Derrick Building (former Greyhound Depot), Amarillo, 1949; Eddie's Napoli's Italian Restaurant, Amarillo, 1930s
Those still built today have usually been individual custom houses. One exception is a tract of ranch-style houses built on and adjacent to Butte Court in Shafter, California, in 2007/08. These houses borrowed their style cues from the 1950s Western-styled ranch houses, with board and batten siding, dovecotes, large eaves, and extensive porches.