Think Sears doesn't sell Craftsman tools anymore? It technically does, but what you'll find there might not be what you ...

There was a time not all that long ago. when a person could sit down with a thick, glossy mail-order catalog, a pen, and a ...

The Sears Sunken Garden in North Lawndale is slated for restoration. Sears' one-time catalog printing building — a block-long brick behemoth — has been converted into housing. The power plant that ...

The average cost to buy a home in Florida in 2025 is hovering around $385,000, according to Zillow’s most current Florida housing market data. But there was once a time, about 85 years ago, when you ...

Sears sold mail-order kit homes from 1908 to 1942, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Few Sears kit homes were sold in Florida, likely due to shipping logistics and the homes' ...

This Georgia home was originally purchased via snail mail from a Sears catalog. According to the national database, Sears Houses, the retailer — known at the time as Sears, Roebuck & Co. — sold ...

In an article for The Daily Yonder, Pat Raia describes the kit homes once sold in Sears catalogs that offered an affordable homeownership option for many Americans in the early and mid-20th century.

Over the decades, the kit homes ranged in price from $3,000 to $10,000 depending on the size, design and scope. The companies also sold garages, boilers, chicken coops, bathtubs and built-in shelving.

What: This is no ordinary century-old colonial home: It was built in 1923 from a kit ordered through a Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. Where: The two-story is at 424 19th St. NW in Canton's historic ...

Sears was once one of the most successful department stores in America, but is now down to just eight locations in the U.S. One of these remaining stores, located at South Shore Plaza in Braintree, ...