Russian Village : Built of Rubble in the Depression, Houses Are Now Claremont's Pride : 'They built (the houses) with the materials available. It was really a classic American story.'
One might think that prospective homeowners would be less than thrilled to learn that their dream house was designed and constructed by untrained laborers using chunks of pavement, telephone poles and odds and ends scavenged from condemned buildings.
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