February 15th: the Aladdin kit house

By

These houses are seen throughout the neighbourhood.

Aladdin Homes, Maclean’s Magazine, February 15, 1930
1914 Aladdin Catalogue, everything for the home was put in a boxcar, flat packed, numbered, with instructions
This is the cover of the 1919 Canadian Aladdin Catalogue. Below is a gallery from that catalogue. Many of the homes were the same as the American models but given a more British or Canadian name.
1923 Aladdin Home ad, 735 dollars, Toronto Star, August 9, 1923
Below is a gallery from the 1921 Aladdin catalogue, sold in Toronto under the Sovereign Homes subsidiary. Above is the Marsden. Many of these kit homes line the streets in the neighbourhood.
1927 Aladdin Homes, Maclean’s, March 1, 1927
Posted In ,

Leave a comment