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People REALLY want their homes to be kit houses, but when you consider that about only 10-15% were kits, the chances that it wasn't sort of dwarfs that probability.

That said, there were a number of companies that did semi-custom and custom plans. Sears certainly did. More likely though, it would be from a plan and materials supplied by the builder. Or, one company — Hewitt-Lea-Funck — based in Seattle, supplied what they called "ready-framed" houses. They have a design that's similar to yours. In any case, it was up to the buyer to hire a carpenter to erect the house on a prepared foundation.

Do you have a rough floor plan you could share?

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I could draw out a rough floor plan but I belive the rooms upstairs have been changed.

I will contact the owner and see what she can tell me. She is the one that was told it was a kit home built in 1916.

The detail of this home being built in 1916 in Fairbanks Alaska leads me to belive she was given the correct information there was nothing else like it at the time. It had the first oak floor in Fairbanks, and the first actual masonry fireplace in Fairbanks.
 
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