The original family owned two Sacramento Eichler Homes! When a home across the street from them became available, they moved in. The materials I've scanned and posted were from their original purchase.
First up -- a 66 page brochure which appears to have been developed for the Bay Area. It describes at length the design principles behind the making of Eichler Homes, as well as the details regarding the building of the homes from the ground up. It also includes what goes on in the planning of an Eichler Home neighborhood, the specific materials used, the companies involved, and available services and resources.
Stay tuned for additional posts regarding the rest of the materials.
6 comments:
Finding stashes like this are architectural historian's dream! How wonderful Gretchen!
Thanks A! I still need to post the rest of it. I understand our climate is good for preserving paper. I think the original family also took excellent care of it!
Gretchen,
I had a Xerox copy of this, but this is way better! I started downloading this from Flicker and was wondering when it was going to end! We should reprint it!!
When I'm done writing the guidebook for the tour, I'll post the rest -- including the handsigned letter from JLE himself!
Hi Gretchen,
Wow,it looks fantastic! How lucky
to have come across the documents! I watched a documentary (The Ritchie Boys), about one of the homeowners (Mr. Michaels) this week. His interviews for the documentary were actually filmed in the living room of the home, really intersting stuff...
Fascinating, Michael. Of course you know I had to immediately Google it. Here's the link, everyone: http://www.ritchieboys.com/EN/boys_michaels.html
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