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Full text of "New Liberty Homes" Order Your

GARAGE

with Your

Liberty Home

lifers

- T. ^M

The Ideal"

The materials for Liberty Garages are all of the samehigh quality as used in Liberty Homes. Specificationsinclude floor plate 2x4" embedded in concrete. Studding2x4" on 24" centers. Rafters 2x4" on 24" centers. ClearRed Cedar Shingles for roof. Clear drop siding for entiresidewalls and gables except Ideal Garage which has 1x6"

sheathing and Red Cedar shingles. Garage doors andswinging casement windows furnished as shown. Allnecessary nails, paint or stain for two full coats. Ma-terials for floors not furnished as concrete is generallypreferred.

All lumber is furnished accurately cut to fit, enablingany handy man to build a Liberty Garage without diffi-culty. Complete working plans and detailed instructionsare furnished free.

Save the Freight by Ordering Your Garage Shippedwith Your Liberty Home.

"The DeSoro

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The Standard"

LEWIS mio. CO.

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LEWIS MANUFACTURING CO.

Liberty ^Homes

OFFICE OF THE

VICE-PRESIDENT

Dear Friend:

Here is our catalog of new Liberty Home designs. The more carefullyyou read it, the more convinced you will be, I believe, that itoffers you the opportunity of securing a first-quality home at aprice considerably lower than the same type of home would ordinarilycost you.

There is no easier or quicker way of getting your new home built

and completed, ready to move into, than to buy it on the Libertyplan. You simply order the particular house that you want andwe ship you at once the materials that you will need in buildingit lumber cut to fit, ready to erect also sash, doors,paint, glass, hardware, etc. Instead of having to shop around andbuy all of the various kinds of materials, item by item, you re-ceive them from us all in one lot, at a quantity price muchlower than you would otherwise have to pay.

During the 43 years that we have been in business, thousands offamilies in all parts of the country have done just what you aredoing now. They studied our catalog, selected the Liberty Homethat suited them best, filled out the order blank and, surprising

as it may seem, had their home finished and were living in itbefore the next rent-day rolled around. How well pleased they areyou will see when you read their letters on the following pages.

The way is open to you to secure a Liberty Home just as manyothers have done before you. Here's the way to go about it 1 Readthe catalog carefully. Pick out the home you like best and decidewhich of the four payment plans you prefer (see last page). Thenjust mail the order blank. Or, if you wish any additional informa-tion before filling out your order, write me a letter on the back


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of this sheet. I am not sure how long we can maintain our pres-ent EXTREMELY LOW PRICES, as the costs of building materials areconstantly rising. So it will be to your advantage to place yourorder as soon as you possibly can. Mail your order or write metoday!

Sincerely yours,

DIRECT FROM FACTORY TO YOU

Take Your Pencil and Write Us a Letter

If there is anything you don't understand, or any further information youwould like to have before sending your order, just write us. Your letterwill receive our prompt, careful attention. For convenience use this sheet.

Mail your letter to

LEWIS MANUFACTURING CO.BAY CITY, MICH.

Dear Sirs: I am especially interested in the Liberty HomeDesign shown on page

If possible, would like to start building during month of

. The things I would like to have you

explain to me about this home are as follows;

Name

Address

City

Stale

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X^OUR home is the most impor-*- tant purchase you will evermake. Probably the largest in dol-lars and cents; certainly the onethat will most directly influence your com-fort, happiness and well being for manyyears to come.

Surely, in considering this purchase,your first thought should be to provide thegreatest possible assurance that your newhome will be all you expected it to be.Liberty Homes and the Liberty Ready-CutSystem give you that assurance. The Lib-

erty System takes the gamble and uncer-tainty out of building protects you fromthe heartaches that result from faultyplanning, excessive costs, and improper orinferior materials.

In every Liberty Home the constructionis of the same type as that of the attrac-tive, costly Architect-Built homes youhave often seen and admired. They areerected in exactly the same manner as anyother sturdy, substantial home is built,each individual piece of material stoutly

and permanently nailed in place in thesame way that first-class carpenters are ac-customed to build good homes.

Briefly, the Liberty System of HomeBuilding is simply this a system bymeans of which you can select from alarge variety of styles and sizes of housesthe one which ideally meets your idea ofthe kind of a home you would like to own.It offers you the protection of a Complete

Home-Building Service, including notonly the architectural plans and workinginstructions, but also the lumber, meas-ured and cut in the proper lengths toconform exactly with the building plans.You are also furnished with the necessarysizes and quantities of nails, the hardware,paint, stains, varnish, doors, windows,roofing and other materials specified indetail on another page of this catalog.


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The result is a home that is not onlyarchitecturally correct in every particularbut is built according to plans which havebeen tried and proved by hundreds ofothers like yourself who wanted a first-quality home at a fair and reasonable price.

Now turn the page and read the com-plete story of the Liberty Ready-Cut Sys-tem and its many advantages from thestandpoint of quality, ease of constructionand, most important of all, LOW COST.

N BUILDING a house, the part ofthe work that is the hardest andtakes up the most time is themeasuring, sawing and planing the lumber getting it ready to put up. The actualwork of nailing it in place is easily and

quickly done.

Make it a point some day to watch acarpenter building a house and see howmuch time he spends with his rule andpencil, figuring and measuring the lengthsand angles of the various pieces of lumber,and then count up how many hours eachday are consumed in sawing all of thelumber by hand. You will realize at oncethat a good share of the carpenter's timeis being wasted in doing things whichcould be done much more quickly and

cheaply by machinery.

The Liberty System of Home Buildingeliminates entirely the expense of havingto pay a carpenter for the hours he spendsevery day in getting the lumber ready tonail in place. In our mills the work ofmeasuring, sawing and mitering is all doneby machinery not only in a fraction ofthe time it takes to do it by hand but alsowith absolute accuracy.

The result is that you will not have topay a carpenter nearly as much to build aLiberty Home because it will not take himnearly so long. In fact, in many cases, itis not necessary to hire a carpenter at all.With the difficult measuring and sawingeliminated, you can take advantage of theassistance offered by your friends andneighbors, and trust them with the work


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of nailing because the lumber is cut toexact size and fits into its proper placewithout any alterations.

Away With

Tedious

Measuring

and Sawing!

By purchasing the materials for yourhome from us, cut to size and ready tonail in place, you save hours and hours ofwork.

For example, it takes a carpenter abouteight hours to measure and saw the rafters

for the roof of an average size house. Inour mill, however, we can saw the raftersfor two or three dozen houses in the samelength of time.

When you consider that the same savingapplies throughout the various other partsof the construction, you will see at oncewhy the Liberty System enables you tobuild your home at such an extremely lowcost.

[HERE is no magic in our beingable to furnish you with the ma-terials for building your home ata price that will save you a substantial sumof money. The explanation is very simple!

In the first place, we manufacture animmense number of homes every year and quantity production results in tre-mendous savings in the building of homes

just as it does in the building of automo-biles, refrigerators, stoves or any othermanufactured product.

In the second place, the mammoth Lib-erty mills are equipped with the mostmodern electrically operated machinery,designed to cut lumber accurately and eco-nomically. Such efficient productionmethods enable us to produce the finished


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product at a fraction of the usual cost.

Thirdly, the business we do is not con-fined to one small community, but isnation-wide in its scope. Consequently weare able to purchase materials in tremen-dous quantities at much more advantageous

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prices than if we had to buy our lumber,paints, hardware and other materials insmall lots as a local contractor would haveto do.

Then, too, we employ "no agents, solici-tors or traveling salesmen, whose salaries

have to be added to the cost of what wesell. This, in itself, results in a consider-able saving of money to you.

But the savings above mentioned are notall by any means. Read on and see!

Not a Piece of Lumber Wasted!

Waste is one of the greatest enemies ofLife. It robs your energy. It robs yourbank account. Did you ever notice theheaps of wasted materials lying around a

newly finished house. This wasted mate-rial costs the owner good money, just asmuch as the material actually used, yet it-was thrown away. It makes you feel goodto know that when you build the Libertyway, all this waste has been eliminated andyou pay only for the material that isactually used for construction.

Not a Penny Thrown Away!

Good building material is too valuableto be wasted. Through scientific planning

and manufacturing methods, every inch ofgood lumber is used. Where there is notwaste, there is no overcharge. In buildinga Liberty Home you profit from these ef-ficient production principles.

But this is not all that you save as youwill see when you read the following pages.


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No Extra Fees

for Architectural Service

x^^\ "JEARS ago, before the Liberty MethodCvy ^V of home-building was established, thec*** ideal way to build a home was to have

the work supervised from beginning to endby a capable architect who was experiencedin designing and building good homes. Anarchitect understands proper constructionmethods; he knows the proper materials touse for each particular purpose; he sees toit that your home is built exactly in accord-ance with approved plans and specifications.

WHEN you build a Liberty Home youreceive the benefit of valuable architec-

tural service without having to pay any extrafee. Every Liberty Home is designed by an ex-perienced architect, and the materials are selectedand manufactured exactly in accordance withhis detailed plans and specifications.

Our architectural service assures you that yourhome will be properly constructed in every par-ticular. On the other hand, if you hire a carpen-ter to furnish the material and build you a housefor a certain sum of money, there is no way foryou to know definitely what the final results willbe. He may scrimp here and there, perhaps splic-

ing short pieces of lumber together where fulllength pieces are required. The result usually isa house of flimsy construction.

Fine Substantial Homes


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''HERE is nothing new or experi-mental about the constructionprinciples followed in the design-ing of Liberty Homes. They are the out-growth of 43 years of experience in thebuilding of homes of a fine, substantialtype homes numbered well up into thethousands in practically every section ofthe country.

Wouldn't you like a home with anattractive living room like this?

A cosy bedroom in the homeof a Liberty owner

One of the outstanding superiorities ofLiberty construction is that every piece oflumber is of adequate size and strength tomeet the particular requirements of the useto which it is to be put.

For example, where experience has showncertain timbers, such as girders, joists, stud-ding and rafters, must be of a particularweight or dimension in order to insure the

proper degree of sturdiness and rigidity,our architects see to it that the specifica-tions, in every case, fully meet such re-quirements.

Make This Simple Comparison

Contrast this with houses that you see acarpenter erecting without architecturalsupervision. Observe how the carpenterhas filled in here and there with crookedboards and short pieces full of knots. Thenwhen the house is finished, squint along

the walls and see if they are straight. Seeif the rooms are the same dimension atone side as at the other by examining thefloor boards, or by looking to see if thewallpaper has the same pattern in the cor-ners of the room from top to bottom.


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Perfect

Construction

Correctly PlannedIn Every Detail

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N THE Liberty Systemof home building, noth-ing is left to chance.Every construction detail is fig-ured out by our architects inadvance, so that when the houseis shipped to you, every piece oflumber is cut the right length and at the

correct angle to fit properly. Consequently,when the work of erection is completed,you have a house that stands four square with walls straight and plumb, and everydetail of its construction carried out ex-actly as called for in the plans.

Even though you were to pay an archi-tect several hundred dollars to design yourhome, you could have no home more


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solidly and substantially constructed thana Liberty.

Conforms to Building Codes

The construction of Liberty Homes iscarried out in strict accordance with thebest modern engineering practice and willfully meet the requirements in practicallyall localities.

If, however, there should be any changefrom standard construction that your localbuilding code requires, we will be glad,when requested, to provide for suchchanges and furnish the materials accord-ingly, charging only for the extra mate-rial, if any, that may be needed.

Life is wore enjoyablein a home of

Liberty homes

are planned

so thai

the furniture

can be

tastefully

arranged.

The Money You Spend for RentWill Soon Pay for a Home

HE only way to protect yourselfagainst rising rents is to build ahome of your own. Otherwise youare forever at the mercy of landlords andare forced to pay whatever they choose to


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demand. How much more pleasant it is tohave a home of your own, free from con-stant worries about being obliged to move,should your landlord take a notion to raiseyour rent beyond what you can afford topay!

And, best of all, think how nice it is tohave a home of your own when you getalong in years and your income drops!Then it will be harder than ever to meetthe monthly rent payments. Decide now toprotect yourself from this future burdenby building a home of your own this verymonth. There is nothing that will give yougreater satisfaction, comfort, and a senseof security in years to come!

Change in Floor Plans

May Be Made to Suit Your

Individual Taste

The plans for each and every LibertyHome shown in this catalog have been de-veloped by our architects with great care,resulting in plans that are most practicalfrom the standpoint of convenience inarrangement, as well as economy in build-ing. We recommend you choose the designthat suits you best and build it just asplanned by our architects. Maximum sav-ings will be the result.

If you should find, however, that minorchanges in the plan or in the specificationswould be desirable in your particular case,we will be glad to accommodate you bymaking such changes which our architectsconsider practical.

*Be youh Own Confoactot/

Save the Money ThatYou Would Otherwise Have to Pay Out!

""HE Liberty method of construc-tion is so simple that many pur-chasers of Liberty Homes do allof the building themselves. If you have thetime, you will save just that much moremoney, and, in addition, you will have a


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great deal of pleasure.

But, whether or not you do the build-ing yourself, the Liberty method enablesyou to save money by being your owncontractor. The fact that Liberty con-struction plans are so much more completethan the usual architects' drawings makesit possible to build a Liberty home without

With the lumber cutto fit, it is surprisinghow little time ittakes to erect a Lib-erty Home.

the least difficulty.

The figures on the next page will giveyou an idea as to how long it will take to

erect the particular Liberty home youwant, if you hire one carpenter and twohelpers to do the work. You can, of course,shorten this time considerably by arrang-ing to help in whatever spare time youhave, thereby also reducing the expense ofcarpenter labor.

You will see by the letters from our cus-tomers (pages 43 and 45) that many ofthem had no outside help at ail yet theydid not have the least bit of trouble.

EasiestMethod

ofBuildinga Home

CXiAU to DJUild.1

No Experience Necessary

EVERY step in the building of a LibertyHome is figured out for you, so that allyou have to do is follow the drawings and in-structions which we furnish you.


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Take the foundation, for example. As soon asyour order is received, our architectural depart-ment will send you the detailed working blue-prints and complete instructions on how tobuild your foundation either with a basementor. without it in accordance with the soundestbuilding principles. By the time the materialsfor your home are delivered, your foundationshould be completed, ready for your carpentersto start building without losing one hour.

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Plans That Eliminate Guess-work

No Time Wasted I Nothing to Figure Out!

UR complete detailed plans is clearly explained, and the ma-terials numbered to correspondwith the working plans and in-structions. No time is lost insorting. Whether you do the workyourself or hire a carpenter, the

work of erecting a Liberty Homeis easy, simple, and systematic.Your home will be up and readyto move into almost before youknow it.

and working instructionsshow you just how to go aboutit. We send you these workinginstructions, together with acomplete set of blueprints, sev-

eral days before the materials foryour home are to arrive.

You will find the Libertymethod of construction veryeasy to understand. Every step

Blueprints Easy to Follow


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"We are well pleased with our Liberty home and garase.I have done all the work myself with my wife ashelper. Several carpenters have looked at our hou.-e latelyand think I did a good job the whole way thru. I havenever worked at carpenter work in my life, but I wasable to read the blue print with no trouble at all, and Ijust followed it, and did fine." Gkokge S.anokrs, X.J.

Basement in Process of Construction from Blueprint

Estimated

Time To

Build

Following is given'the estimated number

of days' time re-quired by one car-penter with two help-ers working eight hoursa day to build eachLiberty Home.

DAYS

Ashland 22

Beverly 1 I

Brighton Ifi

Cambridge 2i

Cascade I J

Castlewood 10

Clinton A 12

Clinton B 1.5

Columbia 21

Concord 16

Cornell 17

Delaware f 7

Dover 17

Lden 7


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Edmund IS

Lafayette 16

La Salle 22

May fair 19

Nantucket 20

National 1 o

Newport 21

Newport Alt. Plan, is

Pilgrim 20

Regent 21

Richmond 2 5

St. Regis 28

Senator 17

Sheridan 15

Sterling A 12

Sterling B 15

Tacoma is

Van Dyke 24

Vernon 21

Wellington A 18

Wellington 11 23

YV'orthington 21

The CORNELL- - 4 Jl*m* 1/ou

Will lie Ptoud to

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