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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.
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s.
Image credits: Georgiegoodboy #3 My Craft. I Restored These Century Old Doors Of A Mausoleum. The doors are about 130 years old, made from oak and are heritage protected.
The employees worked on an assembly line, which proved to be dangerous. Though Chester was a fair and well-liked factory owner, the factory did have some difficult times, and saw seven industrial accidents between 1887 and 1897. In February 1888, a 14-year-old boy lost his toes and part of his foot.
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
Most of Ripon's old downtown, [126] including the 1860/1890 Dodge and Manville Carriage Works, [127] the 1870 Wolcott and Kinsbury Jewelry Store, [128] the 1872 Italianate Pettibone dry goods store, [129] the 1905 Neoclassical Ripon Public Library, [130] the 1922 20th-Century Commercial-styled Kohl Hardware Company, [131] and the 1930 Art Deco ...
Formerly a National Historic Landmark (note: home still exists, but it was delisted after residential development on plantation grounds) 3: Talley-Beals House: August 22, 1977 (#77001296) June 5, 1990: N of Hendersonville off Saunderville Rd. Hendersonville: House burned to the ground due to lightning strike on May 28, 1990. [7]
A fragment of the old Yankee Hill neighborhood on the lower east side, including the William Metcalf house, which started as a Greek Revival-styled home in 1854, [33] the 1862 early-Italianate Carey house, [34] the 1874 full-on Italianate Inbusch house, [35] the 1883 Queen Anne-styled Brandt doublehouse, [36] the 1904 Gothic Revival-styled ...