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Joseph Leopold Eichler was born on June 25, 1900, in New York City, and raised around Sutton Place, Manhattan, [2] where his father and mother ran a small toy store, and in The Bronx. [3][4] His father was Austrian and his mother was German, and he was raised traditional Jewish. [4] Eichler attended New York University (NYU) and earned a ...
A custom home is a one-of-a-kind house that is designed for a specific client and for a particular location. The custom home builder may use plans created by an architect or by a professional home designer. Custom homes provide consumers with the opportunity to control layout, lot size, and accessibility. In most cases, custom home builders ...
Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [1] Sears Modern Homes were purchased primarily by customers in East Coast and Midwest states, but have been located as ...
Tri Pointe Homes, Inc. is a home construction company headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada.It also offers financing and insurance services to homebuyers. It operates in Arizona, California, Nevada, Washington, Colorado, Texas, the District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. [1]
Prefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes or simply prefabs, are specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building, which are manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled. Some current prefab home designs include architectural details inspired by postmodernism or futurist ...
The Stahl House, Case Study House #22. The Case Study Houses were experiments in American residential architecture sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day, including Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, Eero Saarinen, A. Quincy Jones, Edward Killingsworth, Rodney Walker, and Ralph Rapson to ...
Penn Lyon Homes was a construction firm specializing in modular home design, systems-built homes, and commercial modular buildings with its products being distributed through independent builders, developers, and dealers. The company was founded in 1981, and operated out of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Penn Lyon was named twice to the list of 500 ...
Manufactured housing (commonly known as mobile homes in the United States) is a type of prefabricated housing that is largely assembled in factories and then transported to sites of use. The definition of the term in the United States is regulated by federal law (Code of Federal Regulations, 24 CFR 3280): "Manufactured homes are built as ...