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

by Robert A. Schweitzer

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: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.5" x 9.6"