Morris Beckman was an American architect. Numerous buildings that eventually were listed on the

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are credited to him. These include, for example, the Peter Hansen House (Pierre, South Dakota), which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Hughes County, South Dakota. Along with architect Roy Blass, Beckman is credited with design of the "Esquire" prototype of

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, which was manufactured by Chicago Vitreous firm in

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and installed at

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in 1946. He is credited as having been the primary designer of that model.The Lustron Home: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment By Thomas T. Fetters, Vincent Kohler
/ref> Other works are covered in a MPS study.

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