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5 Οκτ 2021 · 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. The Sears home mortgage program started out as one of their keys to success.
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Sears, Montgomery Wards and others were in... The Kit house was a unique phenomenon starting in the early 1900s and lasting for a number of decades is profound.
Host Kevin O’Connor speaks with Rosemary Thorton, author of The Houses That Sears Built, and Avi Friedman, author of Pre-Fab Living, about this then-groundbreaking concept. How did the kit home answer a booming need for affordable and modern housing? And why did their popularity disappear?
9 Αυγ 2021 · If your home was built between 1908 and 1942, compare its floor plan and exterior dimensions against a Sears home field guide, such as “Finding The Houses That Sears Built” (2004, Gentle Beam Publications). You might be surprised to find that you, too, live in a mail-order 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)
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 Houses: This article series provides detailed photographic and historic clues to assist in the identification of Sears Catalog or Kit homes and including references to other expert books and resources on Sears Homes.
