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2849 Washington Blvd, Huntington, WV; 400 Green Oak Dr, Huntington, WV; 120 N. 8th St, Wheeling, WV; 301 21st St, Dunbar, WV; There are at least four of these homes in the Kanawha City section of Charleston, WV, and four located in the Morgantown, WV area. 8 Pallister Rd, Wheeling, WV; 520 Johnson Ave, Bridgeport, WV; 731 E Main St, Clarksburg, WV
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. Two other kit home manufacturers, Lewis and Sterling, were also based in Bay ...
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
Led by Chicago industrialist and inventor Carl Strandlund, who had worked with constructing prefabricated gas stations, Lustron offered a home that would "defy weather, wear, and time." [2] Strandlund's Lustron Corporation, a division of the Chicago Vitreous Enamel Corporation, set out to construct 15,000 homes in 1947 and 30,000 in 1948. [1]
A crew of West Virginia master craftsmen travel all over the country to salvage antique cabins and barns. In the final two episodes of Season 7, the Barnwood Builders take on their hardest build yet. They construct a giant timber frame house for Project Healing Waters, a place where wounded veterans recover from PTSD and other battle injuries.
The castle-like house was built for Colonel Samuel Taylor Suit of Washington, D.C. as a personal retreat near the spa town, beginning in 1885. It was not complete by the time of his death in 1888 and was finished in the early 1890s for his young widow, Rosa Pelham Suit, whom Suit had first met at Berkeley Springs, and their three children. [2]