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We don't build houses like that anymore because it would cost a fortune. That's a lot of man-hours of intricate, custom woodworking right there, and that don't come cheap.
You used to be able to buy similar homes from a sears catalog and put it together yourself. Maybe not quite as much detail, but still a lot more than you'd find anything on the market in the last 40 years.
Btw $753 adjusted from 1913 is only around 25k.
For some reason the thought of mail ordering a house from Sears has always seemed a weirdly comforting, once affordable American thing to me. Living in the western Chicago suburbs, I understand that there are several still standing in this party of the country.