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  2. Kit house - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. This Virginia woman bought an ‘unlivable’ house for $16,500 ...

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    Betsy Sweeney bought a crumbling 130-year-old house for $16,500 in Wheeling, West Virginia and renovated it into a gorgeous historic home — complete with its original pocket doors, Victorian ...

  4. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Lustron house - Wikipedia

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    Lustron houses are prefabricated enameled steel houses developed in the post- World War II era United States in response to the shortage of homes for returning G.I.s by Chicago industrialist and inventor Carl Strandlund. Considered low-maintenance and extremely durable, they were expected to attract modern families who might not have the time ...

  6. Kit House (Style Spotlight) - AOL

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    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 ...

  7. Barnwood Builders - Wikipedia

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    Release. November 1, 2013. (2013-11-01) –. present. Barnwood Builders is an American documentary television series following a team of builders that remove logs and beams from old cabins and historic barns to use them when constructing modern houses. [1][2][3][4] Originally produced for the DIY Network, by season 15, the series had been taken ...

  8. Happy Retreat - Wikipedia

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    Happy Retreat is a 21⁄2 -story white-painted brick structure, with two-story flanking wings. The main facade has a prominent Doric pediment with no colonnade. An elliptical fanlight is centered in the pediment. Below, the main facade is three bays wide, with a one-story flat-roofed porch supported by Doric columns.

  9. Claymont Court - Wikipedia

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    Claymont Court, or simply Claymont, is a Georgian-style brick mansion, the grandest of several built near Charles Town, West Virginia for members of the Washington family. . The current "Big House" was built in 1840 for Bushrod Corbin Washington, nephew of Supreme Court justice Bushrod Washington and grand-nephew of George Washington, to replace the 1820 main house on his plantation that ...

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