Even so, his factory has continued to produce modest houses and ship them, by truck, to Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.

His marketing specialists helped work out the homeowner payment plan, which has produced 56 paid-up and plaqued houses dating from 1697 to 1799.

Local builders are producing single-family houses, close to a completed course designed by Reese Jones, at prices ranging from $125,000 to $750,000.

The town became a trade center with a thriving business district that included drugstores, hotels, banks, livery stables, and produce houses.

TODAY there are about 200 modular manufacturers nationwide, producing houses that vary widely in quality and architectural appeal.

The indigenous peoples had developed techniques to plant numerous plants for their feeding and to produce houses and ornaments.

Builders are also producing semiattached one-family houses on city or private streets, usually selling for $240,000 to $340,000, in Rosebank and Port Richmond.

Since 1986, the city has spent nearly $4 billion and produced more new apartments and houses than any other municipal housing effort in the country.

A few developers who produce inexpensive houses for first-time buyers are still busy, but most builders have either reduced or halted construction.

Even though the city intends to produce 80,000 new apartments and houses by the mid-1990's, New York would need an estimated 150,000 additional new units.