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When Men Were Still Handy
Original Source: The House In The Post
  1917 Sears mail order bungalow in Washington DC's Shepherd Park neighborhood. Photo: Piers Lamb/Evers & Co.
Last week, my business partner, Marcie Sandalow, and I had a listing appointment at a great old house. The owner mentioned it had been a mail order home, not from the Sears catalog but rather from another, a little less well-known kit company.
That was a neat little fact because there is a growing fan base for these homes. There are dozens of them hidden in Washington’s old “streetcar suburbs” –such as Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, the Palisades, and Shepherd Park, which rapidly developed in the 1910s and 1920s. Many more can be found in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs.
Do-it-yourself challenge: the Avondale's dining room with 12-foot beamed ceilings
The first catalog houses were sold and shipped by railway (and eventually horse cart or later truck from the station to the consumer) through Michigan-based “Aladdin” in 1906, and the probably greatest number was sold by the better known Sears Roebuck. They came, in thousands of pieces, with thick instruction booklets—think of a gigantic IKEA project! Families could either hire a contractor or roll up their sleeves ... more

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