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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
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 $12,208 today) – $2,890 (equal to $98,003 today). The first mail order ...
A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842. [1] The process allowed rapid and accurate production of an unlimited number of copies.
Fletcher is a small farming community located in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It lies north of the shores of Lake Erie . Fletcher was the home of Armstrong Brick and Tile, whose plant was remarkable for three large Beehive-style kilns.
The original design was a 16-by-36-foot (4.9 m × 11.0 m) structure framed with steel members with an 8-foot (2.4 m) radius. The most common design created a standard size of 20-by-48-foot (6.1 m × 14.6 m) with a 16-foot (4.9 m) radius [ dubious – discuss ] , allowing 960 square feet (89 m 2 ) of usable floor space with optional 4 feet (1.2 ...
Fletcher is located in southern Franklin County, bordered to the southeast by Lamoille County.According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 38.0 square miles (98.4 km 2), of which 37.7 square miles (97.7 km 2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.7 km 2), or 0.71%, is water. [4]
The Rugby Grange, near Fletcher, Henderson County, North Carolina, was built in 1860 in Italianate architecture.The property includes agricultural outbuildings, agricultural fields and secondary structure, a total of 12 contributing buildings and one other contributing site.