[MassHistPres] Core House Corp

[Dennis De Witt]

Jill

Indeed, very similar -- reflecting the logic of modern (or  
"contemporary") pre-fabs of the period -- think of Tech-Built too --  
but our house has an even flatter roof.

Dennis


On Oct 10, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Jill Fisher wrote:

> This looks like a "National Home" to me.  That you can Google.   
> Attached is a 1956 ad for one in New York (note logo @ lower right  
> hand corner).
>
> Jill Fisher, AICP
> Principal Planner
> Larson Fisher Associates, Inc.
> Historic Preservation & Planning Services
> PO Box 1394
> Woodstock, NY 12498
> 845-679-5054
> jillfisher47 at hotmail.com
>
> www.larsonfisher.com
>
>
>
>
> > From: djd184 at verizon.net
> > To: masshistpres at cs.umb.edu;SAHLISTSERV at listserv.brown.edu; NE-SAH at yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 14:51:42 -0400
> > CC: arthur.krim at the-bac.com;Arthur.Krim at faculty.the-bac.edu
> > Subject: [MassHistPres] Core House Corp
> >
> > I am trying to find out anything about a single story almost flat
> > roof, slab on grade, wood framed, house with generous overhangs and
> > strip windows on its south elevation, built in 1956 in Brookline, MA
> > by Core House Corp. It is one of a group of four different , all
> > distinctively modern (but not radical), prefab type houses built at
> > that time on a sub-divided estate. I have found a state tax
> > registration from the '60s to a Core House inc. at 26 Bennet St. In
> > Lawrence MA but Googling that seems to lead nowhere.
> >
> > There is a currently active Core House Corp. but it can't be the  
> same
> > company as there seems to be no "Google trail" of that name from the
> > 1950s to now. [One source refers to Cove House Corp. but I think
> > that's a typo. and "Core House " was certainly a usage of that  
> time.]
> >
> > A PIC is attached -- unless it gets stripped off in transmission.
> >
> > Dennis De Witt
> >
> <1956 Ad for National Homes.jpg>

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