Instant House

A Brief Departure Word came to me this week of the retirement of two of Philadelphia's most storied architects:  Robert Venturi and Den...

The Instant House Library While trolling eBay for Instant House finds, it occurred to me that I don't have a central listing of all t...

Techbuilt Vacation Homes   More Techbuilt homes in this post.  This time, the Techbuilt Vacation Home line!  Generally, the vacation...

The Sears Homes of the 1950s   Even though Sears ended the "Modern Homes" program during the depression, post-World War II pros...

Catalog Cover Another Sears Clone   I stumbled upon some old PDFs of house plans from a company called the "Chicago Millwork Suppl...

Smithsonian Institution Find A recent web search for Gunnison catalogs pointed me to something in the Smithsonian Institute's American ...