Alcoa Care-free Homes


Alcoa Care-free Homes are a group of suburban homes designed for Alcoa by Charles M. Goodman during the Mid-century modern movement, incorporating ideas generated at the Women's Congress On Housing.
While composed of a variety of building materials they incorporated large amounts of aluminum. The homes were introduced in 1957. They were constructed by local contractors using kits provided by Alcoa, and were mostly built in 1958 as model homes. The company had intended to build forty-eight homes, one for each state in union at the time. Eventually, twenty-four were built in sixteen states. The company was sued for misrepresentation of costs to build the homes, with ALCOA claiming costs to build up to $34,000 and selling prices of $50,000 while Associated Contractors Inc., claiming true costs to build the homes were $63,612 with the highest selling price $32,419.

Locations

According to the original brochure, an Alcoa Care-Free Home was built in the following places: