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| Wardway Homes, Bungalows, and Cottages, 1925 | 
 enlarge | Author: Montgomery Ward & Co.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
Buy New: $7.75
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 205455
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Dover Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.2
ISBN: 0486433013
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.10973
EAN: 9780486433011
ASIN: 0486433013
Publication Date: February 18, 2004
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Product Description
Meticulous reproduction of a rare catalog includes floor plans as well as exterior and interior views of 80 American homes, among them a handsome, three-story frame residence with six bedrooms and a cozy, three-room cottage measuring 18 feet by 22 feet. 94 black-and-white illustrations depict handsome stairways, French doors, and other amenities.
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Not Stickley, but popular for a reason August 21, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Yes, I'm partial to Stickley's designs, but these are the four-squares and bungalows I see more of on both coasts.
If you own a bungalow, four-square, Colonial, or cottage of this period and would like to restore some of its original character, this is a good reference book.
The exterior views include details such as landscaping.
Interior photos, meant to highlight the choices in millwork and such, give a taste of the fashions in decorating.
Toward the end of the book are plans for beach cottages and garages that might inspire a humble retreat or workshop, or perhaps a playhouse or doghouse.
The final pages are ads for the kinds of light fixtures and plumbing fixtures your grandparents likely got rid of in past updates of their houses, and furnaces such as the hulking monster that remained in the basement of a house I rented in Bristol.
Whether you get practical use from this book or not, you will probably enjoy it.
You say Montgomery Wards, I say Gordon Van Tine... January 14, 2006
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I'm a bit surprised to see that Dover chose the 1925 Montgomery Ward catalog to reprint, as they also did the 1923 Gordon Van Tine catalog and these companies were closely linked.
In fact, unlike Sears, Montgomery Ward did not have their own mills, lumber yards, architectural staff, designers, etc., so they turned to Gordon Van Tine (based in Davenport, Iowa) to supply their homes. In other words, when you placed an order for a cute little kit home from Montgomery Ward, they placed the order with Gordon Van Tine.
When your house arrived (in about 30,000 pieces, via boxcar), the shipping labels would read "Montgomery Ward" and the kit would have (probably) shipped from the GVT mill in Davenport.
If you have both catalogs (GVT and MW) compare them side by side and you'll see that they're virtually identical, with names and identifying marks changed in all the right places.
That being said, this is a dandy little catalog and if you suspect you have a kit home from Montgomery Ward, you may also want to invest in the GVT (1923) catalog that Dover offers.
Rose
author, The Houses That Sears Built
co-author, California's Kit Homes
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