Design No. 228
Two Story Chalet Design
From: Preservation Nation Blog
Definition: "A timber dwelling, cottage, or lodge with a gable roof and wide eaves, indigenous to the Swiss Alps, but now found worldwide."
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Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Defining Chalet Style || No Need to Travel
Design No. 228
Two Story Chalet Design
From: Preservation Nation Blog
Definition: "A timber dwelling, cottage, or lodge with a gable roof and wide eaves, indigenous to the Swiss Alps, but now found worldwide."
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Pacific Ready Cut Homes || Style Number 499
From: Loren Latker's -- Pacific Ready Cut Homes
Style No. 499. From the 1925 Catalog
The Pacific Corporation sold it's Ready-Cut homes from 1908-1940. Considered to be the third largest mass producer of pre-cut houses in the United States, Pacific delivered approximately 40,000 units. Business for the company peaked in 1923, sales in 1925 were just 500 homes. In the 1920s working class people aspired to the "good life" of home and auto ownership and Pacific was there to provide the little California bungalow that they were dreaming of.
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Creo-Dipt Stained Shingles
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| Creo Dipt Advertisement |
Creo-Dipt shingle mailer. Cedar shingles from North Tonawanda, NY.
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| Creo-Dipt Stained Shingles |
Creo-Dipts over siding!
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Gordon-Van Tine House Plan No. 535
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| Gordon-Van Tine Home No. 535 |
Gordon-Van Tine Home No. 535 Built in Pittsfield, Mass. This home looks alarmingly similar to Mr. Roberts' home, don't you think?
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
1926 Gordon-Van Tine || Kit Houses from Davenport, Iowa
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| Gordon-Van Tine Mail Order Houses |
1926 Gordon-Van Tine Kit Homes
Monday, June 29, 2015
Bennett House Plans || Kit Houses
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| Kit Houses from Bennett Homes |
1926 Bennett Homes. Better-Built, Ready-Cut. Ray H. Bennett Co. North Tonawanda, NY
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Sears "Winthrop" in Bethesda MD
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| Sears Winthrop Model Kit House |
By,
Catarina Bannier
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| Catalog Houses from Sears Roebuck and Co. |
From the 1928 Sears Modern Homes catalog.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Sears Neighborhood
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| Sears Kit Houses |
Welcome to the Sears Neighborhood! A beautiful tree lined street where children play and life is good. The year is 1928.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
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