Premier Small Homes
Subtitle: New Ideas by Small Home Architects
Publisher: Nationwide House Plan Service
Published: 1920
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: house plans; dwellings; catalogs; domestic architecture; floor plans; designs and plans; homes; dimensions; residential structures; small house designs
Description: <div>Paperback catalog held together wish a dark blue plastic spiral binding. The covers are a gray color with brown discoloration around all edges. The back cover is blank. The front cover has two house illustration on the left, and two house illustrations on the right, with the title on the top and the publisher on the bottom. The house illustrations on the inside are in both black and white and color. Size: 9" x 12"<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>From: https://www.patriotledger.com/story/business/2018/02/07/whatever-happened-to-grossman-s/11038841007/: "</div><div>The company was started by Louis Grossman, a door-to-door salesman who 
lived on Bunker Hill Street in Quincy.  The business grew, and 
Grossman's sons joined the business. After World War I, they bought up 
surplus military buildings − including some from the Hingham Naval 
Ammunition Deport − dismantled them and sold off everything that could 
be salvaged.  It was a process that they would repeat after World War 
II. In 1920, they purchased a site on Granite Street in Quincy which 
became the site of its retail store.  The company began to focus more of
 the lumber and building material end of the business, especially with 
growth of the suburbs which followed World War II.  By the early 1960's,
 Grossman's  had grown to 35 stores in the six New England states, 
including several South Shore locations.  In 1969, it was purchased by 
Evans Products of Oregon.  Evans went bankrupt in 1985, and the 
Grossman's chain was the only division which emerged from bankruptcy the
 following year.  The company prospered briefly, but was hit hard by 
increased competition in the 1990's.  The store on Granite Street in 
Quincy closed in 1993."</div>