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| Sears Maplewood Lansing, Michigan Image courtesy of Newspapers.com |
Kit house companies also teamed up with some of their customers who allowed their new homes to be used as model homes. Often times, this meant opening one's new house to visitors from near and far, sometimes thousands in number, over a period of a couple weeks. Presumably, once the tours were done, the house would be made like new. Not as common but also done were models that were built without a prospective customer in mind. These model homes are notable because they often pop up in searches about the kit house companies in historic newspapers. Let's take a look!
Kentucky
Since the articles that accompany these houses often provide a lot of interesting facts and background information about the houses, I've decided to put together a list of model homes that have been documented. While this isn't necessarily comprehensive, I will try to include as many as possible. I've grouped these first by year and then by state. I've tried to limit the houses to examples that were specifically called out as a model house versus houses that were featured for one reason or another but were not open to the public to tour. If you know of other examples, feel free to share them in the comments so I can add them to the list!
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| New York Times - May 1922 |
1922
New York
- Garden City: Crescent at 54 Hathaway Dr
- Garden City: Homeville at 5 Colvin Dr
1925
New York
- Hamburg (Mount Vernon on the Lake): Alhambra at 4763 Clifton Parkway
- Hamburg (Mount Vernon on the Lake): Verona at 4520 Lakeshore Rd
1928
Ohio
- Bexley: Tarryton at 303 N Cassingham Rd
1929
Ohio
1930
Illinois
- Calumet City: Lewiston at 1555 Kenilworth Dr
- Rockford: Mitchell at 311 N Johnston Ave
Indiana
- Centerville: Lewiston at 5180 W US 40 Highway
- Hammond: Rochelle at 2715 164th Pl
- South Bend: Dover at 1316 E Calvert St
Michigan
- Lansing (Delta Township): Maplewood (customized) at 623 Harriet Ave
Missouri
- University City: Elmhurst at 7260 Northmoor Dr
New Jersey
- Brigantine: Elmhurst at 1903 Brigantine Ave
- North Plainfield: Lewiston at 261 N Jackson St
New York
- Albany (Rensselaer) - Lewiston at 20 Mountainview Ter
- Rochester: Lynnhaven at 98 Lyndale Dr
Ohio
- Carthage: Elmhurst at 1178 W Seymour Rd
- Mansfield: Glen Falls at 55 Wellington Ave
- Springfield: Colchester at 1791 S Center Blvd
1931
Indiana
- Munster: Wardway Yorkton at 1425 Ridge Rd (Yes, Sears built a house that matched a Wardway model for a model house!)
Michigan
Indiana
- Covington: Ridgeland at 105 E 30th St
Michigan
- Berkley: Concord at 1815 Edgewood
New Jersey
- Highland Park: Custom at 100 Woodbridge Ave
- Raritan: Lynn at 8 Bell Ave
- South River: Dover at 54 James St
New York
- Hampton Manor: Crafton at 275 Spring Ave E
- Hampton Manor: Stuyvesant at 271 Spring Ave E
- Larchmont: Strathmore at 33 Coolidge St
- North Tonawanda: Milford at 234 Lindsay Pl
Pennsylvania
1940
Indiana
- Indianapolis: Cape Cod at 5406 Shelby St
- Indianapolis: Ellsworth at 5824 E Michigan St
- Indianapolis: Lewiston at 8181 Rosemead Ln
- Indianapolis: Wilmore at 4017 Brookville Rd
- Rockford: Cape Cod at 2016 Ridge Ave
New Jersey
- Cranford: Cranford Home Club model at Raritan Rd
New York
- Valhalla: Falmouth at 149 Lakeview Ave
1941
Michigan
- Lansing: Parkside at 2437 S Washington Ave
Pennsylvania
- Bethlehem: Falmouth at 2129 Glendale Ave
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