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Thursday, January 28

Early Prefab Housing in Washington State

Many of the prefab houses built by the govenment in the 1940's are still around including the one that I lived in for a year. An unassuming 400 sq. ft. 1 bedroom modern box. 1,800 were built in 1944. The City of Richland Published "home blown, the history of the homes of richland",  in 1993.  It is a great booklet. I look forward to doing some early prefab mashups for the microhousenw site.  The one bedroom prefab pictured below shows the gable roof added in the early 1950's.  A-Z_houses.jpg (80406 bytes)
This nice web site has an overview of the Richland letter houses.
http://ebchs.org/architecture/Richland/h_letter_house.htm
Posted by microhouse

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  1. microhouseJanuary 28, 2010 at 8:39 PM

    Here is the link to the Home Blown booklet

    http://www.ci.richland.wa.us/RICHLAND/Redevelopment/docs/6/docs/HOME%20BLOWN.pdf?CFID=2842352&CFTOKEN=33587977

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