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  2. Joseph Eichler - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Lindal Cedar Homes - Wikipedia

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    Lindal Cedar Homes (est. in 1944) is an American manufacturer of prefabricated post-and-beam homes. Since 1950s it is the largest North American manufacturer of prefabricated cedar homes. [6] In the 1960s it was the largest US manufacturer of A-frame houses. The company operates as a third-generation, family-owned private company.

  4. List of Levitt & Sons Housing Developments on Long Island

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    During the 20th century, Long Island (and the US as a whole) saw a pattern of mass suburbanization. [1] Levitt and Sons – one of the most famous real estate firms of the 20th century – built many housing developments across Long Island (and the US, as a whole), including Levittown, New York – which is widely considered as being America's first mass-produced suburb, and also as the ...

  5. X-100 (house) - Wikipedia

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    X-100 (house) / 37.525053; -122.353416. The X-100 is an experimental steel house designed by A. Quincy Jones with his partner Frederick Emmons for Eichler Homes and built in 1956 at the San Mateo Highlands development in California. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

  6. Feake–Ferris House - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after the purchase the Feakes likely began construction of a fieldstone cellar dug into a hill overlooking Greenwich Cove possibly serving as a makeshift home for their family. [5] Around 1645, the Feakes constructed a post and beam one-room-over-one-room house on top of the cellar. After the Feakes' divorce, Elizabeth Feake sold the ...

  7. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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    Traditional timber framing is the method of creating framed structures of heavy timber jointed together with various joints, commonly and originally with lap jointing, and then later pegged mortise and tenon joints. Diagonal bracing is used to prevent "racking", or movement of structural vertical beams or posts. [ 14 ]