Pre-cut homes in Michigan, 2006.

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Pre-cut homes in Michigan, 2006.

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Speech (photocopy, 61 pp.) presented at the 132nd Annual Meeting and State History Conference of the Historical Society of Michigan on September 23, 2006. The speech includes data and numerous illustrations of various types of pre-cut homes, cottages, garages, and barns created, advertised, and sold by a variety of manufacturers, including: Mershon and Morley; Radford; St. John's Portable House Company; Togan Stiles; Aladdin Company; Lewis-Liberty; Sterling Homes; Sears-Roebuck; Montgomery Wards; Gordon-VanTine; Pacific; and Bennett.

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Clarke Historical Library

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Wolicki, Dale Patrick

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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 t...