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Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [1] Sears Modern Homes were purchased primarily by customers in East Coast and Midwest states, but have been located as ...
Cover of the 1916 catalog of Gordon-Van Tine kit house plans A modest bungalow-style kit house plan offered by Harris Homes in 1920 A Colonial Revival kit home offered by Sterling Homes in 1916 Cover of a 1922 catalog published by Gordon-Van Tine, showing building materials being unloaded from a boxcar Illustration of kit home materials loaded in a boxcar from a 1952 Aladdin catalogue
Putting Sears Homes on the Map: A Compilation of Testimonials Published in Sears Modern Homes Catalogs 1908–1940. ISBN 0976209608. ——— (2012). Mail-Order Homes: Sears Homes and Other Kit Houses. Shire Books. ISBN 978-1782001034. Shackman, Grace (2002). Ann Arbor in the 20th Century: A Photographic History. Arcadia Press. ISBN 0738520101.
The Aladdin Company. The Aladdin Company was a pioneer in the pre-cut, mail order home industry. Sometimes referred to as Aladdin Readi-Cut Houses, the company was the first to offer a true kit house composed of precut, numbered pieces. [1] Its primary competitors were Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck and Co. in the US and Eaton's in Canada.
Researchers for the City of Meridian found evidence that the Tolleth House was a Sears Catalog Home constructed from mail order plans sold by Sears, Roebuck and Company in their 1905 catalog. Sears included catalog homes beginning with its 1908 catalog, but the company offered "full color and texture wallpaper samples" in its 1905 catalog, and ...
By the early 20th century, Sears was a household name, dominating the rural retail market with its huge catalog — selling everything from clothes and jewelry to entire homes. In the mid-1920s ...
The following is a chronological list of buildings designed by late-19th- and early-20th-century catalog architect, George Franklin Barber (1854–1915). Barber is best known for his houses, but also designed churches, barns, and storefronts.
Catalog homes were mail-order kits from Sears Roebuck and Company and other companies. “Kit” homes were delivered by rail and pieced together by the owner. The reason for the popularity of kit homes was threefold. The homes were fairly easy to finance, the kits supplied all or nearly all of the supplies needed to build the home and they ...