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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.
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.
1 Μαρ 2004 · You'll learn how to identify Sears homes from the inside, outside and from courthouse documents. You"ll learn the interesting details of Sears homes' construction. One chapter is devoted to the $1 million order of Sears homes that was shipped to Carlinville, Schoper and Wood River (Illinois).
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.
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.
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.
