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Identifier: APlanBookOfHarrisHomes (find matches)
Title: A plan book of Harris homes
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Harris Bros. Co.
Subjects: house plans prefabricated houses domestic architecture designs and plans, prefab, kit houses
Publisher: Harris Bros.
Contributing Library: MBJ collection

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u credit for good common senseand using some of it ourselves. The Harris Way will enable you to earn more money, because it is the mostpractical way for you to buy material; the least trouble for you to handle, and theleast expensive to buy. It is the safest for both you and the owner; the speediestfor you to build with, and the fastest to put the profit for your labor in your pocket—■by our method you can build two houses, instead of one—earn two profits—getcredit in your neighborhood for being an up-to-date live wire—a reputation for fastand good work, quality of material and lowest in price, and always earn a biggerprofit and still save money for the owner. Some of the Many Good Reasons Why You ShouldBuy a Harris Home Clear lumber outside and inside, No. 1 Yellow Pine Joist and dimen-sion lumber, double floors upstairs and downstairs. Three coatpaint job, paint included. Guaranteed quantities throughout. HARRIS BROTHERS COMPANY, 35th and Iron Streets, CHICAGO, ILL. Page 9
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Read What the Man Who Built the Above StreetFull of Our Houses Says Ohio. Harris Brothers Co., Chicago, 111. Gentlemen:—We are sending yon this letter which you are authorized to use m any form ol pubiicityyou may see fit to send out. . , , Perhaps our best recommendation for your material is the fact that within twelve months we haveordered erected and sold forty-eight of your various house designs, built mostly in accordance with yourplans, although often changed slightly as to outward appearance and in some cases arrangement ot rooms. We are sending you under separate cover a picture which you may wish to reproduce, showing sixteenor seventeen of the houses that were part of the one order given you for twenty designs. I he houseshave given entire satisfaction and have been good sellers. In buying material and building in this way we found it enabled us to undersell other builders at least$200.00 which is no inconsiderable amount when competing for business in a city the size ot C

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