Instant House

More Lustron Stuff I recently found a picture on the internet of a Lustron being erected in an urban environment.  This has to be the one-an...

The House That Macy's Built   Americans are impulse buyers.  We buy everything imaginable on impulse--food, clothing, computers, gift c...

From the May, 1943 edition of "The Rotarian" magazine Press a Button, Get a House! This post returns to the "roots" ...

House trailers have always had something of an image problem.  People like to think of dwellings as permanent--the presence of a chassis and...

Prefabs in Colonial Americas   According to Charles Peterson in his article "Early American Prefabrication", the first prefab to ...

1931 Cover--The Final Wardway Catalog Montgomery Ward Enters the Business   The business rivalry between Sears and Montgomery Ward is th...