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Cover of 1922 Sears Modern Homes catalog. 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]
Pages in category "Sears Modern Homes" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Sears Modern Homes; A.
While an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 homes were built through the Sears Modern Homes collection between 1908 and 1942, in styles like Craftsman, Colonial and bungalow, the high cost of shipping ...
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
Inspired by early 20th-century Sears catalogs that allowed customers to pick a house design that was sold and shipped as a kit, local architects founded the Foothill Catalog Foundation in the ...
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [6] is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail-order catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [7]
The home goods and furniture section of Sears in Burbank, CA, on December 1. - Samantha Delouya/CNN. ... Half a century ago, the Sears catalog helped change the way Americans lived, allowing more ...
Sears Catalog Home: an owner-built "kit" houses that were sold by the Sears, Roebuck and Co. corporation via catalog orders from 1906 to 1940. Laneway house : a type of Canadian house that is constructed behind a normal single-family home that opens onto a back lane