[PW] stone house kits

[Kevin O'Kelly]

Well, certainly "kit homes" were available from Sears starting in 1908.

I have found no record of stone  "kit homes" however--at least not yet.

If such house kits with stones from all 48 contiguous states didn't exist, they should have. It's an idea that would have almost marketed itself in early twentieth-century America.

Kevin


Pam Rider <tsktsk at tns.net> wrote: I accept that I may be dealing with a distorted memory (or a granddad 
who loved to exaggerate).

I very much remember that my Kansas farmer granddad bragged that their 
house had a stone in it from each of the states of the US: then 48. As a 
really neat idea, I certainly remembered it.

I was telling a friend the story one day and my mother (now also gone) 
said, "Oh. It was no big deal. The stones for the house were available 
as a kit."

A current friend was charmed by the story. But, I could find no record 
of houses of stones from the 48 states on the Internet.

Is this a family "urban legend"?
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