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This document examines the nature of the Prairie lumber trade and its influence on farm buildings. It describes the various types of mass-produced building systems, plan publications, and marketing methods that appeared on the Prairies during those decades. It also provides a survey of published plans and built examples of pre-1920 farmhouses, barns, and layouts to illustrate the influences exerted by plan books and mail-order building manufacturers.
Each year, North Americans spend as much money fixing up their homes as they do buying new ones. This obsession with improving our dwellings has given rise to a multibillion-dollar industry that includes countless books, consumer magazines, a cable television network, and thousands of home improvement stores. Building a Market charts the rise of the home improvement industry in the United States and Canada from the end of World War I into the late 1950s. Drawing on the insights of business, social, and urban historians, and making use of a wide range of documentary sources, Richard Harris shows how the middle-class preference for home ownership first emerged in the 1920s—and how manufacturers, retailers, and the federal government combined to establish the massive home improvement market and a pervasive culture of Do-It-Yourself. Deeply insightful, Building a Market is the carefully crafted history of the emergence and evolution of a home improvement revolution that changed not just American culture but the American landscape as well.