Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — House Made in Factories. [ARTICLE]

House Made in Factories.

It B curious to read of houses as articles of export. Yet the manufacture and shipment of houses fqrm an important industry ip Scandinavia. There are enormous timber mills near Stockholm at which wooden houses are made by the hundred for all parts of the world. They are constructed in sections for convenience of carriage, so that on their arrival at the places where they are to be erected the parts can be fitted together. They are not mere sheds or “shanties,” but elegantly constructed residences suitable for the summer dwellings of the well-to-do. Hunting lodges, school houses, public hails and other structures are included amongst the products of the Swedish factories.