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Some U.S. builders are beginning to take advantage of this remarkable seller's market. The most famous U.S. builder, William Levitt, has won preliminary approval from the French government to construct a Levittown of 500 houses near Versailles. For a three-bedroom house, he will charge $20,000 to $25,000-which is 25% to 50% more than the price of the same Levitt house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Room Shortage | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...Edward D. Stone and Philip C. Johnson have designed custom-built atrium houses for private clients in years past. But only lately have mass builders begun to adopt the style. Pacesetter Homes set 169 atria on a tract in San Clemente, Calif., and Builder William J. Levitt-of the Levittown Levitts -includes a version of the house in his 1,450-unit development currently abuilding near Cape Kennedy, Fla. Greatest enthusiast is California's Joseph L. Eichler, who has built some 3,000 houses in 31 development tracts in the last six years, sold every one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Atrium Way | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

Harry: The breaker is Harry, Sophie. I jes' tuned ya in. Could this be the Golden Verce of Sout' Levittown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: What Citizens Have Wrought | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...Alfred broke the building of a house down into 26 assembly-line steps, made their family firm, Levitt & Sons, one of the biggest U.S. home builders, slapping together 40,000 low-cost dwellings in three uniformly antiseptic developments on Long Island, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, introduced the word Levittown to the language; after a long illness; in Manhasset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 31, 1962 | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...DIACK Levittown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennessee: Letters: Mar. 16, 1962 | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

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