I suspect my home in Sacramento, California was built from a kit sometime between 1921-1929
I am going to attempt to load a photo and would appreciate any info anyone can offer. thank you, KO'

I'm just not feelin' the crescentliness of this one. It looks like the roof is a clipped gable and the porch feels kind of dainty to me.

I'd check out Pacific cut homes. It was a kit house co. out of California. Rose Thornton and Dale Wolicki recently published a book on them - check out the book section of this forum - I know Rose posted something.

Donna

It's not a Crescent, for sure. Given that it's in Sacramento, it's more likely to be a kit home from Pacific Ready Cut Homes, which was based in Los Angeles. This was a HUGE regional kit home company that sold about 40,000 houses in the early 1900s (1908 - 1940).

I can't peg it as a Pacific Ready Cut, but Dale and I don't have all their catalogs, so it could be a model from a catalog that we don't possess. The best thing is to look for markings.

Sometimes on the Pacific Ready Cut, you'll find a marking on the framing (wall studs and joists), such as #487, which was a model number. It'll be written in blue grease pencil.

The other marks we've found are descriptive terms, written in blue grease pencil. Things like, "china hutch" or "service door" or "porch floor".

Rose Thornton
co-author, California's Kit Homes

KO, I'm also in Sacramento and there are a number of Pacific Ready Cuts here. While I'm not super familiar with their various designs, the roofline and front looks similar (although certainly those columns were added later). As Rose says, look for the blue grease pencil - it lasts forever and should still be in a number of places if it's a PRC home.

Are you in East Sacramento somewhere? Email me at hundertwasser@yahoo.com - always looking for interesting houses to write about on Hewn & Hammered.

I find the history of homes like this one to be fascinating, and have started a site devoted to gathering this history and sharing it with others. The site is {broken link} Come take a look, and use what information you find there to answer your question here!