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2. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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   Sears Modern Homes were sold between 1908 and 1942. There is some debate about whether some homes from Sears that were built in 1941 and 1942 qualify as Sears Modern Homes. Some of these homes were based on models offered in the Sears Modern Homes catalog. Others were not, but were still pre-cut kit homes built from plans and materials from Sears.

3. Kit house - Wikipedia

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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

4. Lustron house - Wikipedia

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   Westchester Deluxe 2-bedroom house. Arguably the most popular of the Lustron homes was the two bedroom, 1,021 square feet (94.9 m 2) "Westchester Deluxe" model.In total, there were three "models" of Lustrons: the Westchester, Newport, and Meadowbrook.

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

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   While an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 homes were built through the Sears Modern Homes collection between 1908 and 1942, in styles like Craftsman, Colonial and bungalow, the high cost of shipping ...

6. The Aladdin Company - Wikipedia

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   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. (Sears Modern Homes) in the US and Eaton's in Canada ...

7. People used to buy homes through catalogs. Could that idea ...

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   Inspired by early 20th-century Sears catalogs that allowed customers to pick a house design that was sold and shipped as a kit, local architects founded the Foothill Catalog Foundation in the ...