Aladdin Company
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Aladdin Company
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The Aladdin Company was established by two brothers, William J. and Otto E. Sovereign, as a partnership in 1906. The original name of the company was the North American Construction Company, which changed to the Aladdin Company in 1916. The Company manufactured readi-cut houses, which it sold through mail-order catalogs. It stopped manufacturing houses in 1982 and was legally dissolved in 1987. The Company's success was based on advertising. The houses it manufactured and sold indicate popular taste in housing in the twentieth century. The Company also sold housing, built in a similar fashion, for industrial and military purposes. A source of pride for the Company was the sale of 200 houses to the Austin Motor Company of Birmingham, England, in 1917. One shipment of this order was sunk by a German submarine and had to be replaced. The Company was the second largest readi-cut house manufacturer next to Sears, Roebuck and Co.
The Edenton cotton mill and mill village represent a rare example of industrial construction in North Carolina's coastal plain. Designed by nationally known mill engineers, C.R. Makepeace and Company of Rhode Island, the mill structure itself features popular Italianate elements, while the mass of the building expresses the functional requirements of a cotton mill. The architecture of the mill village reflects national trends in the Colonial revival style of the supervisors' and engineers' houses, and in the "operatives'" prefabricated houses from the Aladdin Company of Bay City, Mich. Other operatives' houses reflect vernacular practices common to North Carolina's rural and urban landscape.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/156056820
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88677791
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n88677791
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Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Domestic
Advertising, Direct-mail
Architecture
Architecture
Colonial revival (Architecture)
Company town architecture
Cotton manufacture
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Industrial housing
Industrial housing
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Mail order businesses
Prefabricated houses
Prefabricated houses
Prefabricated houses
Textile factories
Vacation homes
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Michigan--Bay City
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Edenton (N.C.)
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United States
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Aladdin City (Fla.)
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