05-03-2015, 08:23 AM
Thats an amazing resource. Great find!
Very interesting to see the evolution of the plans, and how even some of the earliest models have design features that you find 50 years later.
I wonder how Sears Roebuck fared in Canada. It would be great to see an equivalent Eatons site, but alas they went under in 1999 after 130 years in business. Many of the homes built in the Canadian Prairies were Eaton homes shipped by rail to the west.
If anyone is interested, I have a couple of similar books - one on Victorian era homes and cottages, and one about houses and trim in the 1920s. I also have an Eatons 1927 Spring and Summer catalogue (reproduction). Unfortunately, the latter does not have anything about houses.
Andrew
Very interesting to see the evolution of the plans, and how even some of the earliest models have design features that you find 50 years later.
I wonder how Sears Roebuck fared in Canada. It would be great to see an equivalent Eatons site, but alas they went under in 1999 after 130 years in business. Many of the homes built in the Canadian Prairies were Eaton homes shipped by rail to the west.
If anyone is interested, I have a couple of similar books - one on Victorian era homes and cottages, and one about houses and trim in the 1920s. I also have an Eatons 1927 Spring and Summer catalogue (reproduction). Unfortunately, the latter does not have anything about houses.
Andrew