Aladdin Homes "Built in a Day". Catalog No. 32. Cover title: Aladdin Readi-Cut Houses. Sold by the Golden Rule. by 1920s HOUSE PLANS) - Copyright 1920.

Bay City, Michigan.: The Aladdin Company.. Second Edition.. Copyright 1920.. Color (including four fold-out double page) and black and white illustrations of homes accompanied by floor plans, color pictorial endpapers, 116 pp, index, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, color pictorial cloth covered thin boards (hardbound). WITH FOLDING PRICE LIST tipped in on front pastedown. Some pages lightly sticking, corner creases to a few fold-out illustrations; good condition. An interesting Aladdin catalog depicting numerous "built in a day" homes, both large and small. Includes information on "The Lumber We Use", General Specifications, and Aladdin Service; plus several pages of Aladdin Colonnades, Arches, Built-in Buffets, Book Cases, Kitchen Cabinets, Popular Aladdin Garages, and Summer Cottages. Of particular interest is the diversity of size and luxury offered, well demonstrated in comparing The Leota (page 65), a house with a total of five rooms with The Villa (page 66-67) a two-story house of thirteen rooms. It is interesting to compare the optimism and sense of design conveyed by this post-World War I with catalogs published in the aftermath of World War II where the home a returning veteran might hope for was considerably more utilitarian in design. .