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Learn about the history and features of Sears Modern Homes, houses sold by mail order by Sears, Roebuck and Co. from 1908 to 1942. See examples of catalog covers, floorplans, and photos of these kit homes across North America.
Kit house manufacturers sold houses in many different plans and styles, from simple bungalows to imposing Colonials, and supplied at a fixed price all materials needed for construction of a particular house, but typically excluding brick, concrete, or masonry (such as would be needed for laying a foundation, which the customer would have to ...
Sometimes referred to as Aladdin Readi-Cut Houses, the company was the first to offer a true kit house composed of precut, numbered pieces. [1] Its primary competitors were Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (Sears Modern Homes) in the US and Eaton's in Canada. Two other kit home manufacturers, Lewis and Sterling, were also based in Bay ...
Kentucky-based Mighty Small Homes is well known for its range of kit houses, including this trailer-mounted tiny home. ... (which at 400 square feet would be bigger than the kit house itself). The ...
By Bud Dietrich, AIA Kit houses were America's first mass-produced, prefab homes, sold by Sears, Montgomery Ward, Gordon Van Tine, Aladdin and a few others. The materials for these homes, ordered ...
White Hall State Historic Site is a 14-acre (5.7 ha) park in Richmond, Kentucky, southeast of Lexington.White Hall was home to two legendary Kentucky statesmen: General Green Clay and his son General Cassius Marcellus Clay, as well as suffragists Mary Barr Clay and Laura Clay.
Lustron houses are enameled steel houses developed in the post-World War II era by Carl Strandlund. Learn about their history, design, models, and current status.
Boxhill, also called Winkworth, is a Georgian Revival house in Glenview, Kentucky, a small city east of Louisville, Kentucky.It was built in 1906 or 1910 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.