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Kit house. Kit houses, also known as mill-cut houses, pre-cut houses, ready-cut houses, mail order homes, or catalog homes, were a type of housing that was popular in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the first half of the 20th century. [1] Kit house manufacturers sold houses in many different plans and styles, from simple bungalows ...
Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [1] Sears Modern Homes were purchased primarily by customers in East Coast and Midwest states, but have been located as ...
Houses, Garages, Various Buildings. Revenue. $5,400,000 (1950) The Aladdin Company was a pioneer in the pre-cut, mail order home industry. 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 ...
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 ...
March 11, 1971. 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. On April 12, 2011, White Hall was designated as a ...
Boxhill (Louisville) 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. [2][1] As with other nearby mansions such as Lincliff, Boxhill reflects a period of Louisville history ...
A Young Georgia Couple Restores An 1800s Family Farmhouse To Welcome The Next Generation. Cameron Beall. September 25, 2024 at 7:45 AM. To honor history while making the house their own, they took ...
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Anchorage, Kentucky.Latitude and longitude coordinates of the 35 sites listed on this page may be displayed in a map or exported in several formats by clicking on one of the links in the adjacent box.