Item Description

This Ebay listing is for the sale of a CD ROM publication of the Aladdin House Plans.
 

Aladdin House Catalog, 1920.
(Also available in a separate ebay listing is the 1918 Aladdin Catalog in our ebay store)

  You can read the detailed content pages further down this page.

Here are Sample page images from this CD  

The year is 1920 and the country is recovering from a great and horrific world war, from almost every family in the nation losing some friend or family member, if not to the war just past, to the great influenza epidemic that nearly brought the world to its knees. 

As in recovery from any war or trauma, our nation and each person wanted desperately to find security, happiness, peace, constructive and substantial ways to see a stable future. 

Into this world came the ready build home industry, offering folks affordable housing they could purchase “ready cut” so that assembly as something they could see as a possibility to do themselves or with the help of their friends and family and neighbors.

What could be more wonderful after a time of disaster and uncertainty than to have your own new fresh home to start a future in?

 From Stickley to Aladdin Homes, everyone tried hard to out do the other fella in terms of quality, value, interesting designs, innovations in assembly and logistics, and marketing.

 This 1920 catalog from Aladdin Homes is filled with a diversity of home plans and photographs sufficient to give even the most uninspired amongst us, either prospective homebuilder or architect, a surplus of ideas and possibilities to use, either directly or in new designs.

 One of the interesting things we have found looking at these catalogs, home plans and pictures, is that the presence of the combination of a plan and picture in a book with such diversity of plans gives a kind of a comparison of features and faults that is very illustrative of the individual design components and their values or risks.

 Looking at the long and huge roofs of some designs one can see the possibilities for serious problems in high wind loading (tornado lifted roofs) or in high static loading (massive snowfalls) as but one example.

 One can also see huge thermal advantages to the same roofs in hot climates with vents pulling air thru the homes nicely at even low wind speeds and the upper stories giving huge living areas that are pleasantly warm in cool weather.

 In short, looking at, and thinking about these various designs is both stimulating from a design and lifestyle viewpoint, but also educational from a functional analysis viewpoint. 

I can think of no better or more useful tool for a homebuilder, prospective home-owner, or architect or engineer to have and review than catalogs of homes with plans and pictures.

 Get this and wander through it, print out a few of the pages that interest and compare your thoughts with those of colleagues and friends. You will be amazed at the perspectives you get and the education.

Now is a good time to look at building your future !!

This CD contains 88 House Plans In PDF file format.
Index to Designs

Action XVI pg 38
Albany Pg 19
Alliston pg 24
Alliston No. 1 pg 24
Alliston No. 2 pg 24
Antler Summer Cottage 16'x10' pg 88
Antler Summer Cottage 24'x12' pg 88
Avon XVI pg 51

Balsams Summer Cottage pg 84
Bermuda Summer Cottage pg 78
Brunswick XVI pg 69
Burnside pg 32

Carling Summer Cottage pg 87
Carleton XVI summer Cottage pg 82
Cedars XVI pg 72
Champion XVI pg 60
Cleveland XVI pg 45
Croft VI pg 23

Dale XVI pg 28
Devon pg 25
Dixie XVI pg 57
Dorval XVI pg 18

Eastbourne XVI Summer Cottage pg 79
Eden IX pg 70
Edmonton XVI pg 30
Elora pg 35
Elmwood XVI pg 73
Erskine pg 68

Fairfield XVI pg 54
Fairport Summer Cottage pg 80

Gem Summer Cottage pg 78
Geneva XVI pg 52
Gladstone X pg 64
Glencoe XVI pg 59
Glenora pg 25
Glenora No. 1 pg 25
Grange XVI pg 31

Heathdale Summer Cottage pg 83
Hewitt Summer Cottage pg 78
Holmwood XVI pg 67
Homestake XVI pg 55
Homestead pg 47

Ideal X pg 56
Islander Summer Cottage pg 88

Jackson pg 26
Jackson No. 1 pg 26
Jeannette XVI pg 61

Kawartha Summer Cottage pg 83
Kentucky X pg 74

Lakeside Summer Cottage pg 85
Lancaster XVI pg 39
Lockwood X pg 20
Lynn XVI pg 37

Manor XVI pg 66
Massachusetts pg 22
Model XVI pg 33
Moncton VI pg 50

Oakwood pg 63
Ottawa VII pg 71
Oxford XVI pg 34

Parry Summer Cottage pg 87
Preston XVI pg 27

Ravenswood pg 43
Redcliff pg 25
Redcliff No. 1 pg 25
Richelieu pg 48
Richmond VI pg 65
Richmond VI (Brick Veneer) pg 65
Roseland pg 62

Sharbot Summer Cottage pg 78
Simcoe Summer Cottage pg 81
So-Homey Summer Cottage pg 88
Sovereign IX pg 42
Stratford X pg 29
Sudbury XVI pg 46
Sunnyside pg 53
Sylvan Summer Cottage pg 86

Tacoma XVI pg 58
Tawanda XVI pg 36
Tawanda XVI (Brick Veneer) pg 36
Tottenham pg 25
Trent Summer Cottage pg 88

Victoria XVI pg 40
Victoria No. 2 pg 41
Victoria No. 109 pg 41
Victoria No. 507 pg 41

Villa XVI pg 21

Wabash pg 44



 

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In CD ROM format, you can easily enlarge the contents of the pages on your computer screen to see more details and with better clarity.

you can also print out select pages of text and pictures as needed for your particular project you are working on. We even have a customer who printed out the illustrations to create a collage background paper for her scrapbook project!

User friendly PDF file format, the CD is Microsoft Windows as well as MAC compatible.

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