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Clayton Homes established its own mortgage company in 1974 and added a manufacturing division in 1975. [14] The company went public in 1983, trading on the New York Stock Exchange. [15] [14] Each year from 1989 through 1992, Clayton Homes was named on the Forbes list of the best small companies in America. [16]
The MHINCC distinguishes among several types of factory-built housing: manufactured homes, modular homes, panelized homes, pre-cut homes, and mobile homes. From the same source, mobile home "is the term used for manufactured homes produced prior to June 15, 1976, when the HUD Code went into effect."
This category is for mobile, modular, ar any other type of manufactured (prefab) home builders to be listed. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Modular homes are built to either local or state building codes as opposed to manufactured homes, which are also built in a factory but are governed by a federal building code. [22] The codes that govern the construction of modular homes are exactly the same codes that govern the construction of site-constructed homes.
James L. Clayton Sr. (born March 2, 1934) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He founded Clayton Homes in 1966 and built it into the United States' largest producer and seller of manufactured housing, a formerly publicly traded company that was sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2003 for $1.7 billion.
In February 1930, Clayton Wagons Ltd. went into receivership and its Chief Draughtsman incorporated the Clayton Equipment Company Ltd in 1931 to continue supplying spare parts and maintenance for Clayton's products. [2] Founded in 1931 by Stanley Reid Devlin with an authorised share capital of £1000 shares of £1 each.
Six demonstrator homes were built speculatively in the Burnham Park neighborhood of Milwaukee by Arthur Richards in 1915-16 and were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [10] There are four model 7a duplexes, a model B1 bungalow, [11] and a model C3 bungalow. It is the only grouping of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes ...
Champion Homes was founded in 1953 as a single manufacturing facility in the small town of Dryden in rural Michigan by Walter W. Clark and Henry E. George. [4]In 2005, Champion was the first manufacturer to build privatized modular housing for the military.