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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 $12,208 today) – $2,890 (equal to $98,003 today). The first mail order for a Sears house was filled that year.
Menards sold the Menard Building Division in 1994, racking up 36 years in the pole building industry. Menards of East Madison, Wisconsin, pictured in 2012 (closed and relocated to Sun Prairie in 2018) [6] Menards was founded as Menard Cashway Lumber. In the mid-1980s, the "Cashway Lumber" name was dropped and the business became simply known to ...
Wolfgang Schroeter invented the first wood-burning stove with a cast iron frame and glass door. This allowed the user to see the fire burning inside the stove. [16] A fireplace insert converts a wood-burning fireplace to a wood-burning stove. A fireplace insert is a self-contained unit that rests inside the existing fireplace and chimney.
An unfinished basement used for storage and exercise Chillon Castle (Château de Chillon) basement A former Stasi basement hallway Cellars are often used in pubs to keep beer barrels connected to the bar at ground level. A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor. [1]
A Franklin stove. The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1742. [1] It had a hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer more heat from the fire to a room's air) and relied on an "inverted siphon" to draw the fire's hot fumes around the baffle. [2]
Menards store in Lafayette, Indiana. Menard opened his first hardware store in 1964. [11] As of 2021, his company owned 335 Menards stores and 12 distribution centers. As of 2005, Menards grossed an estimated $5.5 billion in sales. Menard had a net worth of $8.6 billion in 2013, according to the Forbes 400, and is the richest person in ...
On July 12, 2019, Menard announced he had a contract for the 2020 season, indicating that he plans to stay with Wood Brothers. [8] On September 10, 2019, Menard announced his retirement from full-time racing after the 2019 season.
Team Menard was an auto racing team that competed in the Indianapolis 500, CART, Indy Racing League, NASCAR Cup Series, and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.The team was owned by Menards founder, John Menard Jr. Founded in 1980 to compete in CART, from 1991 to 1996 they modified their own Buick V6 engines for racing.