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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...
17 Οκτ 2020 · From 1908 until 1940, Sears, Roebuck and Company offered kit homes via their popular catalog. Varying in prices and quality, some homes offered electricity and plumbing for extra cost while...
Sears, Roebuck & Co., based in Chicago, sold "mail order houses" from 1908-1940. In this story, the "Two on Two" news magazine visits the Sears archives to...
5 Οκτ 2021 · Instead, Elgin’s Sears homes simply sat there through the decades, largely untouched. The closing of the watch factory froze the town in time. The Houses That Sears Built by Rosemary Thornton
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.
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.
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.
