Date: July 20th, 2006

The cookie-cutter house: Part 2, the revival?

20 July, 2006 (09:25) | Uncategorized |

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1]
 
For more than seventy years, visionary architects, engineers, entrepreneurs, and public officials have sought the elusive cheaply replicable house:
 

He tried in 1939

He tried in 1947

 

He tried in 1969
 
PORT ARTHUR, Texas — It’s a modest little house, perched atop piers, and its very existence among the neighborhood’s other homes gives no clue […]