“You see those in dining rooms with a window seat.”īut according the Sears archive site, there is no telltale way of being sure. “Very indicative are the bump-outs, like on an RV,” Marihugh said. One day after moving back to the area, he was appraising a home just north of the railroad tracks on County Road 6, north of U.S. By the time he was 21 he had appraised homes in 53 counties in Ohio, he said. One local man has developed a passion for identifying the homes in the area.ĭave Marihugh’s interest began in 1987, when at the age of 14, he began to appraise homes while helping his real estate agent mother. Now, more than a century after the first kit homes were built, identifying them takes but a small amount of research. The needed supplies for a home could be shipped by rail to the customer and either they or a contractor would build it. Even though the models were not groundbreaking in their design, their low cost was the key selling point. The first catalog of home plans came out in 1908 and proved popular. Kushel (formerly manager of the china department) took over the building supplies department having realized supplies can be shipped directly from the factory, thus saving storage costs.
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