History of Prefabricated Homes



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Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1848/00/00 ET Bellhouse and Co manufacture prefabricated Iron Houses. Ordered from a catalogue, the dwellings are dismantled, components labelled then packed into crates and shipped to California 49ers for use in the Gold Rush.
1854/00/00 An iron house fabricated in Manchester, England, at the Eagle Foundry, is assembled in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. Put together in Britain, the houses were taken apart, pieces labelled then packed into crates and shipped ready to be reassembled. Portable Iron Houses, Melbourne, Melbourne, AU
1889/00/00 George F Barber of Knoxville markets entire precut houses.
1904/00/00 The Aladdin Company of Bay City, Michigan, begins mass-marketing and mass-manufacturing complete homes that can be assemble by unskilled labor.
1908/00/00 Sears and Roebuck Company begins selling plans for houses that can be constructed of local materials and tailor in small ways the suit the client.
1908/08/13 Thomas A Edison patents a method to construct homes of concrete formed with one continuous pour using cast iron molds. Vinkenbaan 14, Santpoort-Zuid
1920/00/00 By 1920, International Mill and Timber Company's Sterling Homes of Bay City, Michigan, offers as many as 57 mail-order family home kits and 3 summer cottages.
1926/10/00 Designed by Bauhaus colleagues, an experimental steel house is erected. Bauhaus, Dessau
1928/00/00 L W Ray patents a portable, steel framed, building that that will become the standard for White Castle. The hamburger stand uses porcelain-enameled steel panels that are attached to a steel frame. White Castle Building No 8, Minneapolis
1933/00/00 Developed and manufactured jointly ARMCO and the Ferro Enamel Corp, the Armco-Ferro House by architect Robert Smith Jr, is built in Chicago for the Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition. Armco-Ferro House, Beverly Shores, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
1946/11/00 In Fall 1946, Carl Strandlund and his team of Chicago VIT designers develop a house with an easily erected steel frame and screwed together enameled parts.
1947/01/00 After a meeting with Wilson Wyatt, director of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Strandlund establishes the Lustron Corporation with $12 million ($137 million in modern dollars) in federal loans.
1949/00/00 The five prefabricated residences, numbers 1, 3, 5, 7 and 8, are built on Jermain Street. Lustron Houses of Jermain Street Historic District, Albany
1960/00/00 Fuller and Hewlett Dome Home is built and designed by Al Miller of the Pease Woodworking Company. Fuller, R Buckminster, and Anne Hewlett Dome Home, Carbondale, IL

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