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Levittown Homes cost
$6,900 (including land)

Spartan Manor
Spartan Aircraft
Buckminster Fuller
The Spartan Aircraft Company, hoping to make the transition from the wartime economy began producing the Spartan Manor in 1947. They offered insurance and financing to entice consumers.

Wheel Estate, Allan Wallis, Oxford University Press, 1991
Image Credit: Trailer Topics, 11:3, 1947


At $5,000.00, the Spartan Manor was more expensive than the Levittown Houses whose prices included the land that they sat on. The Spartan Manor was aimed at mobility not affordability. The Spartan is also a marker for the large number of private war time industries that tried to make the transition to a peace time economy.