Just joined today and this is my first post. My husband and I are setting up a large, mostly pre-war 0 gauge layout in our basement. While my husband is fascinated with switches and rolling stock, I (as a long-time collector of vintage and antique dollhouses) am mostly interested in the buildings and scenery. I have a nice collection of 1/4 scale Schoenhut train houses from the 1920's (wood with tin windows) for a perfect little neighborhood, and I am using pre-war lead people and street lights, etc., but I am struggling to create a 1940's - 1950's style town with stores that have this same vintage toy look (simple and a bit heavy as opposed to completely realistically styled and scaled). I have a tin-plate pre-war diner and a station, and a great wooden church that I found at an antique store. Our pre-war lionel houses are too small so I am using them in our smaller S-scale town. I also have a couple of vintage Skyline kit houses on the farm I am creating. I am turning one of the Schoenhut houses into a bakery and another into a law office. I'd like some wooden scratch-built 2-story stores for the main street in town, a post office, school, library, etc. but I have looked twice at the York TCA show and haven't found what I am looking for. Ideally, I would come across a collection of wooden buildings built by a real craftsman in his basement in the 1940's. Let me know if you have some of those 
I am a bit of an ebay junkie so I will continue looking there, as well as at York. I'd settle for wood kits but haven't found just what I am looking for (looked through the source list posted recently). I like the style of the Ameritowne kits but I don't want plastic on this layout and for now I am holding out for wood. I am working on a Greenleaf kit right now but the components are very cheap and I am having to improvise a lot to make it look okay, plus the styling seems so delicate in comparison to the Schoenhut houses. I wish I could find some nice pre-assembled wood buildings that I could add windows and trim to and paint. I don't really have the expertise or skill to do precision work and create these completely from scratch. Any ideas for me?
