Is that good-looking bungalow of yours a Sears Kit Home? How can you find out? What should you look for? And what does it mean to have a Sears Kit Home? Each month, I receive dozens of emails from ...

A home in McCandless that was ordered from a Sears catalog in 1922 is now on the market. The house at 8828 Memorial Drive was one of the many home kits sold in the United States through the mail-order ...

FALL RIVER — Before there was Amazon Prime, there was the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog. The retail giant's catalog, printed from 1892 to 1993, featured any product an American consumer could ever need ...

The original 1926 Sears & Roebuck label identifying the house at 115 Belleclaire Avenue in Longmeadow as a Sears kit house. The label includes the name of the recipient of the Sears kit house, the ...

Long before Amazon and internet shopping, you could buy almost anything from a mail-order catalog. Clothing, furniture, jewelry, toys, plant seeds. Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick ...

Onetime retail giant Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week. Here’s a look back at a story from 2017 about how the kit homes it sold and shipped are still valued today. (October 22 ...

As Sears stores close around the country, the longtime retailer’s legacy may be a catalog item it stopped selling in the 1940s: home kits. Estimates from the Sears Archives website suggest the company ...

The Magnolia home was one of the largest offered through the Sears catalog. Sears sold more than 70,000 mail-order homes between 1908 and 1940. Some enthusiasts estimate that about 70 percent of Sears ...

VICTOR, N.Y. — Sears Roebuck and Co. started selling mail-order houses from its specialty catalog — the Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans — in 1908. It is reported that more than 100,000 houses ...

Uniquely is a Sacramento Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Sacramento area so special. Minnie Kendall’s Roseville house was said to ...