Worthington's Colonial Hills ahead of it's time
Sharon Alters in Florida wrote 'Are factory built homes the next wave of New Construction' on her ActiveRain blog. ActiveRain is an International real estate network... we consort with Canadians! There are some Australians on ActiveRain. And members in India... Perhaps elsewhere.
Florida seems local in comparison.
Sharon references and links to an article about "prefab" homes online, from a publication for real estate licensees who are members of the National Association of Realtors.
Sharon wrote:
"An article from the online Realtor® news today announced that factory-built homes are becoming more acceptable. Their cost factor of 10-35% less, plus the short length of time to build is helping them gain in popularity throughout the country, says the Manufactured Housing Institute. "
Reading Sharon's article I wanted to say at first "we don't really have much in the way of modular homes in our market " then I think of Colonial Hills. The first Colonial Hills homes were built back in 1942 I believe? Or assembled. The homes were built elsewhere.
The Realtor Mag online info is quoting an article from the Chicago Tribune written by Leslie Mann, last week, which says:
"One problem is the difficulty potential buyers have finding information and qualified builders. "We have not, as an industry, learned to promote our homes," admits Vic DePhillips,
chairman of the National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) Building Systems Councils."
Worthington's Colonial Hills ahead of it's time? Colonial Hills homes are Colonial in style. They were built very afford-ably as rental housing during the Second World War. The one story, cape cod and two story homes are small homes. Oh and there are just a handful of split levels... Colonial Hills is a very popular Worthington neighborhood today. Prefabrication in the 1940s. Worthington historian George Campbell's Colonial Hills History site deals with "prefabrication" or modular homes. The first 200 homes in Colonial Hills were built elsewhere and arrived via train to be assembled. Colonial Hills History, shows Central Ohio was ahead of it's time.
I went to a presentation Campbell gave recently about Colonial Hills history. Campbell showed slides with examples of the modular construction of a Colonial Hills garage.
Then there was Lustron...
Perhaps in time the rest of the world will catch up with Worthington and Central Ohio.
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