[3] The customer could choose from a variety of floor plans, finishes, design features, and equipment choices.

[5] The company sold an estimated 54,000 homes under the Gordon–Van Tine name, and provided the lumber for another 20,000 to Montgomery Ward company, who contracted with Gordon-Van Tine to supply materials for their identical line of Wardway homes, beginning in 1917.

[6][7] While better known for their houses, Gordon-Van Tine also provided the plans and materials for pre-cut barns and other farm structures.

[8][9] Gordon-Van Tine remained in operation until 1946, when it was sold to a Cincinnati salvage firm that liquidated it just as the post–World War II housing boom was beginning.

Building #2 is a five-story, rectangular, reinforced concrete structure with brick curtain walls.

Building #4 is a long, narrow, single-story, brick structure on the north side of the property.

A 1915 issue of Mississippi Valley Lumberman newsletter references the use of the Funk (sic) Lumber yard by Gordon-Van Tine,[12] and the January 18, 1919 issue of The Southern Lumberman, discussing the retirement of George W. Funck, discusses the ownership of the Funck Lumberyard by Davenport's U.N. Roberts lumber company (parent company to Gordon-Van Tine).

[13] Gordon-Van Tine offered its first "Ready-Cut" catalog in 1916,[14] and that year coincides with the year that the St. Louis Funck Lumber Company re-tooled their business to add a wood-working plant for the manufacture of "ready cut" houses, as mentioned in the March 13, 1916 Iron Age lumberman journal.

[16] The addition of the "ready-cut" manufacturing section of the lumberyard was a boon for business at Funck Lumberyard, which saw its business revenues triple in 1918 and 1919, according to a January 1920 Southern Lumberman journal article that mentions the change of the company's name to Goodfellow Lumber.