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2. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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   Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [1] Sears Modern Homes were purchased primarily by customers in East Coast and Midwest states, but have been located as ...

3. Levitt & Sons - Wikipedia

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   Levitt & Sons. Levitt & Sons was a real estate development company founded by Abraham Levitt and later managed by his son William Levitt. The company built the town of Levittown, New York. The company's designs and building practices transformed the home building industry and altered the north eastern landscape of the United States with massive ...

4. List of Levitt & Sons Housing Developments on Long Island

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   During the 20th century, Long Island (and the US as a whole) saw a pattern of mass suburbanization. [1] Levitt and Sons – one of the most famous real estate firms of the 20th century – built many housing developments across Long Island (and the US, as a whole), including Levittown, New York – which is widely considered as being America's first mass-produced suburb, and also as the ...

5. Joseph Eichler - Wikipedia

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   Joseph Leopold Eichler was born on June 25, 1900, in New York City, and raised around Sutton Place, Manhattan, [2] where his father and mother ran a small toy store, and in The Bronx. [3][4] His father was Austrian and his mother was German, and he was raised traditional Jewish. [4] Eichler attended New York University (NYU) and earned a ...

6. List of largest houses in the United States - Wikipedia

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   List of largest houses in the United States. This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes.

7. National Register of Historic Places listings in New York

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   House at 3 Crown Street, Nelsonville, in Putnam County. New York State Capitol, in Albany County. Eagle Island Camp, Saranac Lake, in Franklin County. Empire State Building, Manhattan, in New York County. First Baptist Church of Painted Post, Painted Post, in Steuben County. Buffalo City Hall, Buffalo, in Erie County. County.