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2. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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   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 $12,599 today) – $2,890 (equal to $101,139 today). The first mail order ...

3. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   Depending on the size and style of the plan, the materials needed to construct a typical house, including perhaps 10,000–30,000 pieces of lumber and other building material, [4] would be shipped by rail, filling one or two railroad boxcars, [6] [7] which would be loaded at the company's mill and sent to the customer's home town, where they would be parked on a siding or in a freight yard for ...

4. Prefabricated home - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, several companies, including Sears Catalog Homes, began offering mail-order kit homes between 1902 and 1910. [2] The Forest Products Laboratory, a division of the U.S. Forest Service, put extensive research into prefabricated homes in the 1930s, including building one for the 1935 Madison Home Show. [3]

5. Some Sacramento homes might be built from kits. But did they ...

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   There were also fewer people on the West Coast in the years Sears sold mail-order houses. Just shy of 10 million people called California, Oregon and Washington home in the 1940 U.S. census.

6. Broken Floor Plans Combine the Best of Open Layouts and ...

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   Not a fan of open-concept homes, but still not convinced that closed, individual rooms are the way to go? Good news. There’s another type of floor plan in between these two extremes. Enter ...

7. Mt. Juliet building: New plans for 242 homes off Central Pike ...

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   Scaled-down SW Cook Road subdivision plan now for more than 100 fewer lots than previous plan that did not move forward. Mt. Juliet building: New plans for 242 homes off Central Pike, Rutland Road ...