
A non profit corporation, founded in 1985, dedicated to preserving the history of Arthurdale, West Virginia, the First New Deal Community in the United States, created in 1933 and homesteaded in 1934.
Hodgson Houses are located on the Arthurdale website under the heading "Arthurdale in the Past" sub heading "Houses" then click on "Hodgson".
If you are planning on visiting Arthurdale, West Virginia please click on the link of the "Arthurdale WV Self Guided Driving Tour". You will see Hodgson Houses on this tour.
Arthurdale WV Self Guided Driving Tour.pdf
Arthurdale Map Computer Generated from 1930.pdf
A competitor of E. F. Hodgson Co. located Bay City, Michigan.
Built in a Day:Capturing the Era of Catalog Architecture
Ernest Franklin Hodgson's Biography on American National Biography Online: www.anb.org/articles/10/10-02293.html
E.F. Hodgson Co. used stains from Cabot Stains -- moss green for the roof and brown for the sides.
E. F. Hodgson Co, operated in Dover, Massachusetts, from 1892-1944.
House and Yard The Design of the Suburban Home - U.S. Department of Interior, National Park
National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection - Kit Houses
A competitor of E. F. Hodgson Co. located Davenport, Iowa.
When the duPont family owned James Madison house, Marion duPont Scott built a home for her horse steeple chase jockey and trainer, Carol K. Bassett, on the estate. The house she built was a Hodgson House. The house is called Bassett House today. It still exists today and is in pristine condition. It is located along East Gate Road. Landscape Map of the Madison Estate showing East gate Road: www.montpelier.org/visit/see/estate_map.php. East Gate Road leads to the back exit of the James Madison Estate. when my father, daughter and I visited James Madison House in August 2008 nobody related to the James Madison House really knows about much the Hodgson House. Our website has a lot of the information and pictures about this house. This house is worth seeing the inside is in great condition and the outside has a lovely porch and gardens. Marion duPont Scott's Jockey lived well in this house.
The Lustron House was an innovative solution to the post-WWII housing crisis. Many thought the porcelain enamel clad wonder would be the General Motors of the housing industry. Production began in 1948, but by 1950 production problems and a corruption scandal brought it to a halt. The factory was closed and the equipment sold or scrapped. All in all, only about 2,680 of these unique homes were built. Sadly, it is estimated that only 1,500 of these unique homes survive today. Each year, dozens more are lost to demolition, neglect, and unsympathetic changes and alterations.
www.lustronpreservation.org/index.php
www.lustronconnection.org/home.html
www.oldhouseweb.com/stories/Detailed/12270.shtml
www.recentpast.org/types/resident/lustron/
The N.W. Ayer Advertising Records include business records but consist primarily of print advertising created for thousands of clients between 1869 and 1969. N.W. Ayer was the advertising agency which created magazine ads to sell Hodgson Portable Houses through magazines such as House & Garden, Home Beautiful, Home & Field, Sportsman and others.
A competitor of E. F. Hodgson Co.
Mail Order Houses in Libertyville, Illinois
The Christian Science Montior Article on the History of Sears Homes
Sears Homes - Rosemary Thorton, better know as the Sears Lady, is authority on mail-order homes from Sears.
E. F. Hodgson also used paints from Sherwin Williams. Click here to see a Sherwin Williams Color Pallet from a 1907 E. F. Hodgson Catalog
Today’s prefab movement has
captured the spirit and imagination of a new generation of
architects and home buyers, who together have championed a
variety of modern modular dwellings that challenge
preconceptions about “prefab” homes as cheap, cookie-cutter
structures of last resort. This exhibition presents a
variety of approaches to prefab—from houses owners can build
from a kit of parts, such as Rocio Romero’s LVL House, to
those that arrive fully assembled like the diminutive
one-room version of weeHouse by St. Paul-based Alchemy
Architects. Among the featured projects are the glimmering
sculptural metallic Turbulence House by Steven Holl; Black
Barn, a pitched-roof, modern adaptation of a Viking
longhouse designed and produced by Pinc House of Sweden; and
the playful system of Lazor FlatPak by Lazor Office of
Minneapolis. Whether Michelle Kaufmann’s Sunset Breezehouse,
which adopts a variety of ecological approaches to living
and building, or the precision and craft of Marmol
Radziner’s Desert House or the customizable configurations
of Resolution: 4 Architecture, such houses better parallel
the lifestyles of their owners, who desire more flexible
living spaces and want to speed the pace of the building
process without sacrificing the quality of materials or
construction. For more and more people, prefab meets the
conditions that make the dream of owning a modern home a
reality.
Curator: Andrew Blauvelt
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