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2. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   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

3. Lustron house - Wikipedia

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   Westchester Deluxe 2-bedroom house. Arguably the most popular of the Lustron homes was the two bedroom, 1,021 square feet (94.9 m 2) "Westchester Deluxe" model.In total, there were three "models" of Lustrons: the Westchester, Newport, and Meadowbrook.

4. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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   That year, the Aladdin Company of Bay City, Michigan, offered the first kit homes through mail order. In 1908, Sears issued its first specialty catalog for houses, Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans, featuring 44 house styles ranging in price from US $360 (equal to $12,599 today) – $2,890 (equal to $101,139 today). The first mail order ...

5. Prefabricated home - Wikipedia

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   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]

6. Erector Set - Wikipedia

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   Erector Set (trademark styled as "ERECTOR") was a brand of metal toy construction sets which were originally patented by Alfred Carlton Gilbert and first sold by his company, the Mysto Manufacturing Company of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1913. In 1916, the company was reorganized as the A. C. Gilbert Company.

7. Girder and Panel building sets - Wikipedia

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   The Girder and Panel Building Set construction kits enabled a child to build plastic models of mid-twentieth century style buildings. Vertical plastic columns were placed in the holes of a Masonite base board and horizontal girders were then locked into the vertical columns to create the skeletal structure of a model building.