This type B shack with its French doors draped with bougainvillea, period ornament and contemporary deck would easily win the contest for most gussied up refugee shack in the city. It is now larger than its original 252 square feet and has been remodeled inside.
The Cottage Book, 1989
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witch’s treehouse
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Radio shack near Wichita, Texas, undated. Photo by Jimmy W. Cochran.
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You know what? Old Mystery Shack sketch I did some times ago.
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The wealthy relation of the refugee shack was the bonus plan cottage. They were actually proposed by San Francisco's mayor before the advent of the refugee shacks, but the price tag of $1,000 for the cottage and $1,000 for the lot on which to build proved unworkable for most refugee families. However, for those refugees who owned or leased land and were fortunate enough to be employed, they proved to be an alternative to living in the camps. The Department of Lands and Buildings provided the plans - designed originally by well-known... architect Bruce Porter and subsequently modified by an unknown architect to make them less expensive - and put up one-half the construction cost for them. Eight hundred eighty-five were built.
The Cottage Book, 1989
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Sharecropper shack. Kitchen of Ozarks cabin purchased for Lake of the Ozarks project. Missouri. May 1936.
Photo by Carl Mydans, Resettlement Administration.
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