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 ...

Thanks to the Internet, you can buy just about anything online and have it shipped to you in a few days or less. The process is reminiscent of the early 1900s, when people turned to mail-order ...

On Saturday, Nov. 6, the Glen Ellyn Historical Society will present "The Story of Sears Roebuck Kit Homes." In the early 20th century, Sears, Roebuck & Co. used to sell "kit homes" that were delivered ...

Is your home an “Honor Built home”? What is that you ask? Well, perhaps a Craftsman kit home would help answer the question. The Honor Built, (used in the advertisement) of Craftsman kit homes were ...

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 ...

If you think houses built from kits during the early 20th century were shoddy and cheap, think again. “These homes were solid and have stood the test of time,” said author and historian Rosemary ...

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 ...

Once upon a time, you could purchase a home for less than $5,000. The Barrington. The Lexington. The Sheridan. The Hazelton. The Malden. From the early 1900s until 1942, Sears, Roebuck and Co., more ...

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 ...

Anything could be bought from a Sears catalog: kitchen tables, lamps, clothes, dishes, stoves, mantels — everything you could ever need. You could even buy your house from Sears. Imagine paging ...

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 ...

Thanks to the Internet, you can buy just about anything online and have it shipped to you in a few days or less. The process is reminiscent of the early 1900s, when people turned to mail-order ...