I can’t remember when I first learned of Sears Roebuck homes, but it must have been decades ago. There are several in the county and one was on Greene County’s Tour of Homes when it was in Durham in ...

FALL RIVER — Before there was Amazon Prime, there was the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog. The retail giant's catalog, printed from 1892 to 1993, featured any product an American consumer could ever need ...

A home in McCandless that was ordered from a Sears catalog in 1922 is now on the market. The house at 8828 Memorial Drive was one of the many home kits sold in the United States through the mail-order ...

The original 1926 Sears & Roebuck label identifying the house at 115 Belleclaire Avenue in Longmeadow as a Sears kit house. The label includes the name of the recipient of the Sears kit house, the ...

On Saturday, Nov. 6, the Glen Ellyn Historical Society will present "The Story of Sears Roebuck Kit Homes." In the early 20th century, Sears, Roebuck & Co. used to sell "kit homes" that were delivered ...

A 1925 Colonial-style home in Washington, D.C., that sold last year for $1.06 million had humble beginnings. It was a Sears, Roebuck and Co. kit home, the Martha Washington, advertised in the ...

Between 1908 and 1940, the Chicago-based mail-order firm of Sears, Roebuck & Co. sold approximately 75,000 prefabricated kit homes in a wide variety of styles and sizes, one of which has just hit the ...

Long before the days of internet shopping, where customers stay home, make selections and have merchandise delivered, there were catalogs. Children spent hours looking through the pages and hoping for ...

If you think houses built from kits during the early 20th century were shoddy and cheap, think again. “These homes were solid and have stood the test of time,” said author and historian Rosemary ...

VICTOR, N.Y. — Sears Roebuck and Co. started selling mail-order houses from its specialty catalog — the Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans — in 1908. It is reported that more than 100,000 houses ...

2421 Troy-Schenectady Road, Niskayuna, dates to the 1770s. It was restored in 2020 by developer Joel Bisaillon. Developer Joel Bisaillon found piles of the former owner's belongings when he bought ...

It's fascinating News to me that a small cadre of historians and passionate amateurs are on a mission to identify and protect homes made by Sears, Roebuck and Co. - homes that caught on as the U.S.