How long did it take to build an old house?

[rodpaine]

Our Sears type house was built and sold in 7 months. Construction started late March 1927 and was completed and sold November 1927. A 1932 picture shows that two others had also been built and sold by then. A total of 5 were built on our street by the same family, the Case brothers.
-Rod

[Mike-ND]

The owner of our house (built in 1926) died less that a year after moving in, and his wife then sold it to a family that lived here through the 1940s. For the next ~20 years, various ministers for a local church (which is now dissolved) lived here (and during that time the house was actually donated to the church. I was able to look through old city directories to find out who lived here during that time. Some neighbors have done similar searches to see who lived in their home during the great depression.

[Don M]

Another thing that you have to keep in mind is many towns renumberd houses during the early 20th century so a house could have more than one address showing in the town directories. My grandmother's home in Chambersburg, PA had one street address in 1910 but a different one in the 1916 directory. If we hadn't discovered this we would have gone to the wrong house!

[CountryGirl]

Does anyone know how long it took to build a house in a rural area, 5 miles from the railroad station in 1898? It seems with the winds on the prairie in Central Illinois, it would have been a difficult task!

Susan