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2. A-frame building - Wikipedia

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   A-frame buildings are an ancient form in Europe (e.g. cruck frame construction or grubenhaus ), China, and the South Pacific islands. Sometimes called a roof hut, these were simple structures used for utilitarian purposes until the 1950s. [ 2] In 1934, R. M. Schindler built the first modern A-frame house, for owner Gisela Bennati, in Lake ...

3. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   Depending on the size and style of the plan, the materials needed to construct a typical house, including perhaps 10,000–30,000 pieces of lumber and other building material, [4] would be shipped by rail, filling one or two railroad boxcars, [6] [7] which would be loaded at the company's mill and sent to the customer's home town, where they would be parked on a siding or in a freight yard for ...

4. Lindal Cedar Homes - Wikipedia

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   lindal .com. Lindal Cedar Homes (est. in 1944) is an American manufacturer of prefabricated post-and-beam homes. Since 1950s it is the largest North American manufacturer of prefabricated cedar homes. [6] In the 1960s it was the largest US manufacturer of A-frame houses. The company operates as a third-generation, family-owned private company.

5. Modular building - Wikipedia

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   Modular building. Prefabricated house in Valencia, Spain. A modular building is a prefabricated building that consists of repeated sections called modules. [ 1] Modularity involves constructing sections away from the building site, then delivering them to the intended site. Installation of the prefabricated sections is completed on site.

6. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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   An A-frame building has framing with little or no walls, the rafters join at the ridge forming an A shape. This is the simplest type of framing but has historically been used for inexpensive cottages and farm shelters until the A-frame house was popularized in the 1950s as a style of vacation home in the United States.

7. ‘Something was terribly wrong’: North Carolina homeowners ...

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   Lisa Labelle discovered a lot up for sale with the perfect view of the Lincoln County Hills in North Carolina and decided to buy it — hiring a construction group to build her a $429,580 home.

8. Carolina home inspector points out major problems in new ...

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   Commercial real estate has beaten the stock market for 25 years — but only the super rich could buy in. ... The average cost of a home ... Samantha Barker bought a 1940s-era ranch style house in ...

9. Home construction - Wikipedia

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   Home construction or residential construction is the process of constructing a house, apartment building, or similar residential building [1] generally referred to as a ' home ' when giving consideration to the people who might now or someday reside there. Beginning with simple pre-historic shelters, home construction techniques have evolved to ...