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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
we have one in west lafayette. these homes were designed a long time ago so many things we take for granted now were not considered then. kitchens for example were often miniscule, designed to be used by hired help. some like the one here were designed to be inexpensive. the man who owns the one here built it a long time ago on a professor's salary when they made relatively less than now. his wife is gone but he is well at about 93, and is setting up a fund to perpetuate his home as a museum. it is really nice. but the kitchen isnt much bigger than my pantry!
tom w
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One of the homes here is a small studio like set up, two other are $500,000 which is a tad above the median home for the neighborhood, the other which was originally built by the Dow's (dow chemical) is huge I am not sure how much it would sell for but it has the watch tower office and many other unique amenities. The community that they are in and where I went to school had a population of less than 5000 at the time so everyone knew about the FLW homes. There are a few (I think 10) more FLW homes but for some reason they don't get the nod from the FLW registry or something, I am not sure what the criteria is to get the official OK from the FLW guys.