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2. 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 ...

3. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   Depending on the size and style of the plan, the materials needed to construct a typical house, including perhaps 10,000–30,000 pieces of lumber and other building material, [4] would be shipped by rail, filling one or two railroad boxcars, [6] [7] which would be loaded at the company's mill and sent to the customer's home town, where they would be parked on a siding or in a freight yard for ...

4. Lustron house - Wikipedia

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   The trucks then delivered the house package to the building site. [5] Lustron established builder-dealers, which in turn sold and erected the house package on a concrete foundation. In 20 months of production and sales, Lustron lost money on each house, and in turn, was not able to repay the RFC loan.

5. Mt. Juliet building: New plans for 242 homes off Central Pike ...

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   Scaled-down SW Cook Road subdivision plan now for more than 100 fewer lots than previous plan that did not move forward. Mt. Juliet building: New plans for 242 homes off Central Pike, Rutland Road ...

6. Modular building - Wikipedia

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   Construction is offsite, using lean manufacturing techniques to prefabricate single or multi-story buildings in deliverable module sections. Often, modules are based around standard 20 foot containers, using the same dimensions, structures, building and stacking/placing techniques, but with smooth (instead of corrugated) walls, glossy white paint, and provisions for windows, power, potable ...

7. Self-build - Wikipedia

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   Self-build house (EVA Lanxmeer, Nederland)Self-build is the process of creating an individual home or building through a variety of methods. The self-builder's input into this process varies from doing the actual construction, also known as DIY, to contracting certain works to an architect or building package company.

8. AOL Video - Serving the best video content from AOL and ...

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   The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.

9. The Aladdin Company - Wikipedia

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   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 and Co. (Sears Modern Homes) in the US and Eaton's in Canada ...