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Looking Around: American Foursquares (Patreon)

Published:
2017-10-29 18:27:32
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2024-01

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enjoy some boxy bois

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Looking Around: American Foursquares

No single-family home (besides, perhaps, the ranch or the McMansion) is as instantly recognizable as the American Foursquare. Named both for its boxy exterior as well as its neat, cubic interior plan,...

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Anonymous

I've often dreamed of building one of these new today, but upscaling the room sizes a bit to modern standards and probably adding additional bathrooms. I would still keep the small porches and butler's pantries.

Anonymous

Excellent post. Enjoyed reading the copy for the kit houses. How did kit houses work. What kind of business put together kit houses? What was the process like? How did the kit houses get delivered? What caused the business model to end?

Doodles
>>8090059

A lot of the kit houses were offered through catalogs. Sears, Montgomery Wards etc. The basic idea was that all the required materials were pre determined and produced (or ordered) in bulk which reduced waste and cost. You would have essentially every part needed delivered to site (train/truck) and they were common enough that most home builders had made them at least once before.

Anonymous
>>8065569

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