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Was I surprised to find 19 Aladdin kit homes in Kinston? My oh my, yes! And those 19 were found during a very quick windshield survey. There are more lurking about, I???m sure. Last week, my husband and I visited New Bern, and while there, we drove out to Kinston to look at the local architecture. Lo and behold, we found an Aladdin kit home on almost every street in the older neighborhoods. In one memorable area (near Harding and Pollock Streets) we found seven Aladdin homes together. The older suburbs we visited had many wide-open spaces, suggesting that many of these early 20th Century kit homes have already been demolished. If you???re new to this website, you may be wondering, what is a kit home? In the early 1900s, aspiring homeowners could order a ???kit home??? from the Sears Roebuck catalog. Each 12,000-piece kit came with a 75-page instruction book and a promise that the neophyte homebuilder could have the house ready for occupancy in 90 days. In addition to Sears, there were other companies selling kit homes through mail-order catalogs, such as Aladdin (based in Bay City, Michigan) and Gordon Van Tine (Davenport, Iowa). Aladdin was bigger than Sears, in business longer, and sold more homes than Sears, but they???re not as well known as Sears. Aladdin had a mill in Wilmington, North Carolina, which explains why Aladdin Homes were so popular in the Southeast. Based on my research, the overwhelming majority of people living in these kit homes didn???t know what they had, until I contacted them (or they discovered their home on my blog). What was the industry that promoted Kinston???s growth in the early 1900s, and put them on the map? Industries often turned to Aladdin to supply housing for the workers. It???s likely that someone turned to Aladdin for the houses we???re now finding in Kinston, but who was it? Lastly, before we get into the photos, I???m hoping some progressive-minded soul in Kinston will contact me about coming back to town to do a thorough survey. Perhaps identifying these bungalows as historically significant kit homes can be a key to revitalizing parts of Kinston.