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Champion Homes was founded in 1953 as a single manufacturing facility in the small town of Dryden in rural Michigan by Walter W. Clark and Henry E. George. [4]In 2005, Champion was the first manufacturer to build privatized modular housing for the military.
Shipping pre-cut home parts across the United States, these companies turned Michigan into the "center of kit-home manufacturing". [2] Examples of the homes manufactured by these companies and other kit house manufacturers like Sears, Gordon-Van Tine and Wardway can be found in communities across the state of Michigan. These include clusters of ...
The William Horton Farmhouse is a two-story Italianate cube with a one-and-one-half-story side wing. Both sections are wood-framed and covered with clapboard. The two-story section has symmetrically placed four-over-four, double-hung sash windows with pedimented hoods on both the first and second floor levels of all facades, save the first floor of the main facade, which contains a hipped roof ...
In Milwaukee, 15 Lustron homes survive, as of 2014, in a cluster around Lincoln Creek north of Capitol Drive and Cooper Park. These are mostly the Winchester model, but the home at 5520 W. Philip Pl., which has a "unique blue and yellow color scheme, is almost certainly one of the early Esquire “demonstration” homes, which first appeared in ...
"Loren" Iron House, at Old Gippstown in Moe, Australia. The first mention of a prefabricated building was in 1160 to 1170 by Wace as confirmed by Pierre Bouet.In the special May/June 2015 edition of the French magazine Historia, he spoke of a castle transported by Normans in 'kit' form.
Italianate/Greek Revival style farmhouse. Built circa 1843 by Michigan State Congressman Robert P. Aitken (1819–1873) and later owned by his son U.S. Congressman David D. Aitken (1853–1930). Still a private residence.
Robert P. Aitken moved to Flint Township, Michigan from New York in 1842. He married Sarah Johnstone, also from New York, in 1843. The exact date of construction is not known, but is presumed to be after 1843. Aitken was a successful farmer, and a politician, serving as the supervisor of Flint Township and a representative to the Michigan ...
The Cobblestone Farm and Museum, which includes the Dr. Benajah Ticknor House (also known as the Ticknor-Campbell House) is an historical museum located at 2781 Packard Road in Ann Arbor Michigan. [3] The museum gets its name from the cobblestone used to build the farmhouse. [4]