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America's Favorite Homes: Mail-Order Catalogues as a Guide to Popular Early 20th-Century Houses. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8143-2006-6 (Google Books preview here.) Stevenson, Katherine Cole, and H. Ward Jandl. Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company. Washington, D. C.: Preservation Press, 1986.
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 ]
The mass production of thousands of houses at virtually the same time allowed the company to sell them for as little as $8,000 each (equivalent to $109,162 in 2023), which, with the G.I. Bill and Federal housing subsidies, reduced the up-front cost of a house to many buyers to around $400.
Economists have noted increasing ownership of housing units by investors keeping the units vacant or renting them to the exclusion of traditional homebuyers. Investors bought about one of every seven U.S. homes in the first quarter of 2021, up from the prior three quarters, in which they bought closer to 1 in 10 homes. [28]
University Settlement House, Manhattan. The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there ...
Related: Beautiful Old Homes for Sale Across America. Zillow. $7.5 million. Built in 1770, this stunning home has unique ties to the country’s history. Edward Rutledge, who was one of the ...
2012 will probably be considered the year that a sinking housing market finally hit bottom and began to rise again. Home prices, home sales and new home construction all substantially increased ...
Modern residential homes would be built at fabrication homes and assembled on-site. Computer software could produce 3D versions of the building allowing construction managers to analyze the constructability of buildings before construction starts reducing the costs brought by change orders.