Prefab cottage homes arrive on a site in pieces — literally. Prefab cottage home kits are delivered in panels or sections and ...

and Potlatch Forests Inc. sold middle-class families on the dream of building their own vacation home over the course of a ...

often called Kit Homes. These early prefab homes were very simple. After the Gold Rush, these kit homes would become more complex, larger, and more varied in style. And the idea of mail order ...