ugly ass city

You lucky dogs getting to work in there! The passive solar energy provided by the windows that warm the brick keeps everything cozy in that giant greenhouse. Just beautiful.

What a gorgeous home!

Very interesting and heartfelt.

Love the video, can someone tell me where the dump was located during this time period?

A city of sludge in its river that a person had to breath every day. Sulfur beyond belief two feet deep flowing down its banks! No fish, and no wild life near its edges able to drink its water. Yes, the city has closeness amongst its population. But, the size of the population was the reason. And, the population ruled everyone with influx, and control of gossip and control over limits on jobs. Jobs, for the college educated with a degree were very very limited unless it was the mill and the shoe factory. And these were passed down from family to family. Left many years ago. So glad I did! .

Aladdin started a couple of years earlier, and Sears saw a good idea and jumped on board. Aladdin first called their kit houses "knock-down" houses. They first completely assembled the houses, or at least each model's prototype, and then knocked it down (took it apart) for packaging and delivery. People didn't take to that description, as it seemed like the houses wouldn't be sturdy if they could be easily knocked down, so Aladdin started calling them kits.

Such a fascinating talk. Thank you!

After school fights were also behind that arena...lol

So sad that this beautiful place is polluted and the river as well cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.Cleanup&id=0103313#bkground

Bowl ing lane on .err Bowling lanes on Merrimack street and primrose street and at saint Joseph scool

The famous wild bill western show once a year all river behind dairy queen

Skate land had w w f wrestling in the early seventy s

Sartinas grocery super market on hill dale ave

Sartinas grocery super market on hill dale ave

Ben contwlls clothes store

Barrets

Don't forget candy heaven store all types

I use to go to wool worth store as a very young kid I would ride a horse ride a amusement kids horse an Drink a starberry frappe or basic breakfast

I born and raised in Haverhill MA. and it was the best city to live in.. Love this video.. Once urban renewal came to Haverhill everything was lost.. I don't know why cities do that because it totally destroys the character of the beautiful cities/towns..

The town is adapting! There’s fabulous opportunities for off-road vehicle riding, which is bringing in tourists and dollars.

Now this town has gone to shit. Nothing but pedos and crooks.

extremely cool stuff

Thank you

Def meaningful! I am the namesake of Caroline Sidney (she was my great great aunt) at Wrong Roof and have never heard any part of any bits of queer history. Trying to research as much as I can right now.

Is this ever coming out or did the project hit a dead end?

I can't believe this - I just got done writing and posting a long message, and when I posted it, it just refused to post and disappeared!!😮 I usually make a copy of what I write before I post it, just to avoid this kind of thing, but for some reason I didn't.😢 Oh well. I'll try again. This is a very well done, comprehensive video covering the kit home industry of the early half of the 20th century. I am also an (amateur) researcher of this industry, and began at least 15 years ago. I have amassed a considerable collection of kit home catalogs, and plan book catalogs as well, mostly purchased through auctions on eBay, and direct purchases through Dover reprints, and Amazon, etc. Other documents, including actual blue prints of other designs, and pamphlets, related booklets, etc., are in my collection as well. "Archive" has contributed a considerable number of catalogs, videos, etc., and at last count I have "collected" almost 1500 different items in my own collection. Some of them cover other subjects, but the vast majority cover architecture especially vintage through the first half of the 20th century. One concept I noticed was missing in your talk was the idea of "copycats" and different companies producing kits in the name of other companies. One particular instance I had in mind was the Wardway Homes by Montgomery Ward were actually produced by Gordon van Tine. Wards did not have the production facilities or the access to materials needed to make kit homes, so they contracted with Gordon van Tine to do so under their name. So, many if not all of the designs at any given time were produced by GVT and were renamed and repriced to be sold in the Wardway catalogs. Most were not altered in design, although there are some that appear in one company's catalog that do not appear in the other's. This can make identification doubly challenging! Especially when they also appear in plan book catalogs!😮 The other problem can be designs that had alterations done on them during the time they existed in the same company's catalog. Mostly floorplan alterations or improvements, while not changing, or changing very little the exterior elevations. And other designs, like the Sears "Crescent," for instance, which was offered in two different interior designs, and an enlarged floorplan, which only changed the back of the house, and to a lesser degree the two sides. From the front they look the same. The other aspect of "copycats" is the unabashed "swiping" of designs from one's competitors. It was widespread, and extended to plan book producers as well. There are at least a dozen different copies of the Crescent, for instance, that will make its identification challenging to say the least. Some of them have very minor differences, that may initially lead one off in the wrong direction. I have also identified a few plans that used identical copies of the exterior elevation, like they both used the same photograph, because it's identical right down to the lawn and shrubbery! But they use completely different interior plans. The windows stayed the same in at least two, because the rooms being different didn't eliminate the need for them. In that your major interest seems to be Vermont, I'm wondering if you are including Bennett Kit Homes in your studies. I assume so, since they seem to be a significant player in the Northeast part of the country, since they were based in North Tonawanda, NY, and focused on that area of the country. You probably have found lots of Bennett kit homes in the area. Just like if you went to the West Coast, you would find many examples of kit homes built by or provided materials to build kit homes from a regional company called Pacific Ready Cut Homes. Numerous examples of homes by that company will be found in several western states, both private residential and housing for numerous industries which were in business at the time. They even shipped kits to other countries to house the employees of industries both large and small. I have seen several of their homes drastically misidentified as Sears Modern Homes, by alleged professionals, including TV pros, architects, designers, etc. Primarily because they had "Sears Modern Homes 🧠 brain" inside their skulls, and could not see beyond it even with a catalog reprint from Dover right in their hands. They wrote off every difference between the house in front of their eyes and the plan in the book as a matter of "alterations by the original builder" as if it were just normal to alter a kit that drastically. Speaking of kit home companies exporting their products outside the country, are you familiar with the Aladdin Kit Home village in Great Britain? There is one, and it is still occupied! There is a mention of it in the Wikipedia article for Aladdin, thus - "Austin Village In 1917 Aladdin shipped 252 houses to Birmingham, England for the Austin Motor Company who built Austin Village to house workers for munitions, tank and aircraft manufacture during World War I." Austin Village has several links through your Google or other search engine. It's a very interesting read, as it goes all the way back to WWI.7

I remember when the arena collapsed with 5 feet of snow on it my brother and I pretty much lived at the arena and that night we didn't go was lucky!!!!

My parents were born and Raised in Berlin I love to go back it home so glad you made this film

Many thanks from Turkiye! Regards.👏🤝🙏🌹🤗🌺

I'm really impressed!! Thank you to share!

Amazing video. I hope I can visit soon.

Two of my relatives grew up in Berlin. Brothers Rene and Donald Biron. Both became renowned elctrical engineers. Rene's career was primarily with General Electric, and Don primarily did research at MIT. They married close first cousins from Exeter. Nothing weird ...... Rene married Joanne Carbonneau, who introduced Don to her younger cousin, Phyllis Carbonneau. (Brothers married cousins) Now, just to keep it complicated (but not at all problematic ☺), something similar happened in the next generation. Myself (Don's and Phyllis' nephew) married my wife Lisa, and then my cousin Jim (Rene and Joanne's son) met and married my wife Lisa's sister. (Sisters married cousins)

Does anyone remember where blinns restaurant was located 🤔 i remember eating there but don't remember where it was. It was around 1965,66,?

My parents came from Italy , they were lucky to make .90cents a day, they couldn't travel across America.

Really nice to hear stories and see pictures of a lot od the places my parents told us about growing up. A shame it's gone but the memories still remain.

This was very informative! Learned much more about Mr. Bannister! Thank you!

This house is nice but Lloyd Wright's "Falling Water" built around the same time is THE HOUSE !!

Interesting to relive the history of Berlin. I left in 1959 but would return yearly to visit family. At that time I worked for Jacobs Insurance. How busy the street was on Friday, seems like everyone shopped on that day. Today I only have a few cousins living in the area. I have lived in many places but Berlin is still home. Now it is sunshine daily but still miss some cold days.

I watched it up to the part where they destroyed the Beautiful buildings to put up the ugly. Just too sad to watch

Great talk and a great story of the house and family. Are there details on the book Professor Evans talked about?

I never knew about the kid that lost his life.Sad

wll i must be lucky i hav a oneroom school house at my elementry school and its in exelent shape

This is my great grandfather, and great great grandfather.

Our country lost so much when the globalists sold out our future to other countries. If we do not bring back the mill style of life to America you can sure kiss this country and its future good bye. I guess the new generations will want to be china's slaves

Love it ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️!

I am so proud to be born and bred here. Wonderful film! Thank you so very, very much.

Lake Tarlton Club. Haverhill NH. So much history. Needs a spotlight.

I can recall the christmas season ,lights in every store front, christmas music and snow falling ! Ppl out shopping and ppl coming together and talking ! We did,nt need wallmart ! That is why these stores did well ! Ppl shopped local because that,s what we had ! A night on downtown at christmas in berlin was wonderful !

The picture of the kid delivering milk was me !