Arrol Gellner is a practicing architect with 30 years of experience in residential and commercial architecture. He is a graduate of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California at Berkeley. He wrote an awesome article about the bygone days of yore when you could buy a "mail order house." If you know about any mail order houses still in use around Atlanta, please let The Rootdown Group know - we would love to see the property! Mass production residential is still in it's "re-infancy," but as we have reported before, there are some nifty new pre-fab ideas out there... Arrol states "Over the course of the 20th century, there have been many attempts to bring mass-production methods to the building industry. " Many folks remember or have heard about the "Sears Roebuck" houses - Arrol offers a nice explanation..."...retailing giant Sears Roebuck began offering houses by mail order. Each Sears Modern Home came in a 25-ton kit consisting of precut lumber … [Read more...]
