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The Quest for the Factory-Built House

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The History of Factory Built Homes

In the early 1950s, Elmer Fry built a 10 foot wide trailer for someone who wanted to use it behind his car. Pretty soon everybody was ordering these extra wide trailers. By 1970, mobile homes and those other factory built homes made up roughly half of newly built single family homes in America.

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