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2. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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   The last "Modern Homes" catalog was issued in 1940. Although it is sometimes claimed that no Sears kit homes were built after 1940, Sears continued to offer pre-cut kit homes through 1941 and into early 1942. Advertisements for Sears Modern Homes appeared through May 1942.

3. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   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

4. Some Sacramento homes might be built from kits. But did they ...

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   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 ...

5. Harriet Phillips Bungalow - Wikipedia

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   The Harriet Phillips Bungalow is located on NY 23B on the western edge of Claverack, New York, United States.It is a stucco-sided frame building dating from the 1920s.. A strong example of an American Craftsman Bungalow, it is possible that the house may have been built as a catalog home sold by an Iowa company that preceded Sears in offering full kits that included materials and designs for ...

6. Kit House (Style Spotlight) - AOL

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   By Bud Dietrich, AIA Kit houses were America's first mass-produced, prefab homes, sold by Sears, Montgomery Ward, Gordon Van Tine, Aladdin and a few others. The materials for these homes, ordered ...

7. Prefabricated home - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, several companies, including Sears Catalog Homes, began offering mail-order kit homes between 1902 and 1910. [2] The Forest Products Laboratory, a division of the U.S. Forest Service, put extensive research into prefabricated homes in the 1930s, including building one for the 1935 Madison Home Show. [3]

8. The Aladdin Company - Wikipedia

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   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. (Sears Modern Homes) in the US and Eaton's in Canada ...

9. Sears House - Wikipedia

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   Sears House may refer to: Sears Catalog Home, ready-to-assemble kit houses sold by Sears, Roebuck and Company; Sears House (Austin, Arkansas), listed on the NRHP in Arkansas; Dean L. C. Sears House, Searcy, listed on the NRHP in Arkansas; Sears-Kay Ruin, Carefree, listed on the NRHP in Arizona; A. B. Sears House, Chesterville, listed on the ...