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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Minter Homes Corporation Records, A&M 3654, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Records of Minter Homes Corporation of Huntington, West Virginia, regarding the company's building of prefabricated structures. The collection documents early construction projects of Minter Homes (1923-1932), including homes, schools, and churches, among other community buildings, for miners, steel workers, and support staff of several coal, chemical, and steel corporations in the Appalachian and Mid-Atlantic Regions. Among the companies Minter Homes contracted with were Bethlehem Steel, DuPont Rayon, Elkhorn Piney Coal Mining Company, and U.S. Coal and Coke. Includes contracts, blue prints, correspondence, invoices, estimates, and specification statements. There are records of a project contracted by the United States War Department with Minter Homes (1930) for the building of Nurses Quarters at Fort Meade, Maryland. The collection also contains a folder of material pertaining to the history of Minter Homes, including correspondence, advertisements, and articles (Box 1, Folder 1).
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