America's Favorite Homes: Mail-Order Catalogues as a Guide to Popular Early 20th-Century Houses

by Robert A. Schweitzer

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During the first four decades of the twentieth century, prefabricated and catalogue homes grew in popularity and number. Built and occupied by farmers, merchants, the new armies of factory workers and other lower- and middle-class families, these are the modest homes that today line American streets. Using mail-order house catalogues from the time, Robert Schweitzer and Michael W. R. Davis chart the development of catalogue houses and their variations...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814320066

ISBN13:9780814320068

Release Date:January 1990

Publisher:Wayne State University Press

Length:263 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 9.5" x 9.6"

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Home & Garden House & Home Residential

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