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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
Additionally, other kit-house companies also marked their pre-cut lumber, so marked lumber does not necessarily tie the house to Sears. [34] 7. Goodwall sheet plaster was an early drywall-like product offered by Sears and may be an indication of a Sears Modern Home. [35] 8. Compare house designs to original catalog images. Some models of Sears ...
Andersen Lumber Company was originally based in Hudson, Wisconsin, where logs arrived at their location via the St. Croix River. In 1908, Hans Andersen sold the lumberyards to devote all the company's efforts to the window frame business. Needing room for expansion, Andersen built a factory in 1913 in South Stillwater (now Bayport, Minnesota ...
A steel framing system was devised consisting of vertical steel studs and roof-ceiling trusses to which all interior and exterior panels were attached. The concept of prefabricated housing was well established by firms such as The Aladdin Company , Gordon-Van Tine Company , Montgomery Ward , and Sears in the early 1900s.
Among the first kit house companies was the Aladdin Company, based in Bay City, which started producing kit houses and other domestic buildings in 1906.Aladdin sold large orders of kit houses to companies in the extraction and manufacturing fields who used them to create neighborhoods of kit houses for employees of those companies.
It is a one-and-a-half-story adobe pair-house which originally had the common window configuration of seven openings on the front facade: two windows into each outside room, and window-door-window into the center room. The center room's windows were later filled in by adobe. [2] It is located on the southwest corner of E 200 S and S 200 E. [3]
Lustron House, pre-fabricated, all steel, porcelain-enamel, 2 bedrooms on concrete slab, built in 1948, 4647 3rd Street South, Arlington, Arlington County, VA, demolished 2007. 5201 12th Street , South, Arlington, VA, surveyed by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), [ 35 ] demolished October 24, 2016.
The Neils Hogenson home is an original catalogue order house purchased through the T. Eaton’s Co. Catalogue and built by Mr. Neils Hogensen. Shipped from Winnipeg by train, the home came to Stirling in crates with instruction, including shingles, lumber, doors, moldings, windows, paint, nails, hardware and building paper, all this for the cost of about $1,577.00. [1]