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5 Οκτ 2021 · Mostly, though, they hunt for houses the old-fashioned way, by meeting up in groups of two and three and four and cruising slowly down the streets of obscure midwest towns, in a car, together. These and other house hunters have helped identify nearly 50,000 kit homes from Sears and other companies.
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29 Απρ 2012 · Buster Keaton and Sears Homes. Did you know that Buster Keaton did a short film about building a pre-cut kit house? First released in 1920, the 20-minute film shows happy newlyweds (Buster and Sybil) receiving the gift of a “ready-to-assemble” kit home.
Not every house in a community of 1920s-era houses, is a Sears house, for example... far, far from it, in fact, as only about 2% of houses built in the kit era, were built with kits from Sears. A Sears house is: not a Pre-fab house. not a steel panel house (those are usually Lustron houses)
6 Αυγ 2010 · Buster Keaton Does Sears Homes. Released in September 1920, this Buster Keaton short depicts a happy couple (Buster and Sybil) being gifted a “ready-to-assemble” kit home.
These Sears homes weren’t cheap low-end houses. Many of them were built using the finest quality building materials available during that time. It’s not uncommon to find Sears homes today with oak floors, cypress siding, and cedar shingles.
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.
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.
