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The Kit house was a unique phenomenon starting in the early 1900s and lasting for a number of decades is profound. Sears, Montgomery Wards and others were in...
5 Οκτ 2021 · For many families, these were their first homes with things like insulation and central heating. In some neighborhoods, a Sears kit home might be the only house on a block with electricity. Then, in 1911, Sears began offering mortgages to their customers. Like everything else, they made these easy — maybe too easy.
9 Αυγ 2021 · Sears kit homes were an easy way for members of the middle class to realize their dreams of homeownership. Once purchased by catalog, the building materials were shipped in railroad cars and fully erected in as little as 90 days.
27 Ιουλ 2022 · Ever wonder if your old house was a mail order home? Check out this compilation of American Foursquare kit house plans sold by Sears.
Between 1908 and 1940, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. sold 70,000 homes through their catalogs. These were called Kit Homes, and they ranged from simple one-story cottages to elaborate two-story homes with columns and fireplaces. The house arrived in pieces in a boxcar.
15 Ιαν 2024 · Sears Kit Houses: Affordable Housing in the Early 20th Century. By Donna K. Keesling. Between 1908 and 1940, nearly 75,000 homeowners picked out a house from the Sears, Roebuck and Company’s Modern Homes catalog and built their houses from the materials that arrived a few weeks later.
Sears kit houses were built from 1908-1942 (see this blog post for substantiation of the 1942 date, and this follow up article), and the models offered by Sears followed the design trends of those decades.
