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Location of Talbot County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Talbot County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Talbot County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
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 to imposing ...
There are more than 1,500 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. State of Maryland. Each of the state's 23 counties and its one county-equivalent (the independent city of Baltimore) has at least 20 listings on the National Register. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent ...
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 ...
Southeast of Mason on Maryland Route 425. 38°34′43″N 77°06′54″W / 38.578611°N 77.115°W / 38.578611; -77.115 (Araby) Mason's Springs. 3. Bryantown Historic District. Bryantown Historic District. March 14, 1985. (#85000590) Maryland Route 5 and County Route 232.
The Aladdin Company. 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. in the US and Eaton's in Canada.
Betsy Sweeney bought a crumbling 130-year-old house for $18,000 in Wheeling, West Virginia and renovated it into a gorgeous historic home — complete with its original pocket doors, Victorian ...
38°44′5″N 76°37′38″W / 38.73472°N 76.62722°W / 38.73472; -76.62722. NRHP reference No. 71000370 [1] Added to NRHP. June 21, 1971. Maidstone is an old southern Maryland plantation located in Owings, Calvert County, Maryland. The oldest extant part of the house was built in 1751 by a yeoman planter, Lewis Lewin on or near ...