MODULAR STRUCTURES OF PA INC history

In 1897, E.F. Hodgson opened a manufacturing plant in Dover, Massachusetts which profited from the rapidly growing American population.

Starting in 1908, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. sold prefabricated houses through its Sears Modern Home program.

After the development of the assembly line by Henry Ford in 1913, it became even easier to manufacture modular homes at a price that was affordable to many more consumers.

By 1953, The Mobile Home Manufacturers Association was formed.

In 1965 he had cofounded Aurora Modular Industries, which produced modular houses and buildings, mobile homes, and office trailers, as well as modular classrooms.

1976 was a huge year for the mobile homes in Pennsylvania and the rest of the country.

In early March 1977, the modular housing industry in Pennsylvania found itself confronted with a sales tax issue that was unable to be resolved by any of the various trade organizations in existence at that time.

Furthermore, in 1978, California voters approved Proposition 13, which resulted in the scaling back of property taxes, a traditional source of school funding.

Bonds to finance new school construction were then put on the ballot for voter consideration in 1982, making a greater pool of money available for modular classrooms.

In the same year that funds became available, Gerald B. Bashaw founded Modtech, and incorporated it two years later, in 1984, as Modtech, Inc.

He brought in Evan M. Gruber, a certified public accountant, in January 1989 to serve as his chief financial officer and later in the year Modtech completed its first acquisition, buying Q.E.D. Industries in a deal worth approximately $3.3 million.

On July 10, 1990, with a small group of industry professionals, a production force of about 100, and the support of a handful of key builders, Apex began production of our first modular home through our 40,000-square-foot facility in Middleburg, Pennsylvania.