Sears Roebuck houses in Chicago and its suburbs
Sears Roebuck houses in Chicago and its suburbs
How about a light-hearted happy post amongst the stories of a declining economy and too much theft and aches and pains? Here are picture of the top five...
How did Charleston, West Virginia end up with a large collection of kit homes from Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward and Aladdin Homes?� Were these homes
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Sears Roebuck houses in Chicago and its suburbs
Sears Roebuck houses in Chicago and its suburbs
Sears Roebuck houses in Chicago and its suburbs
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Remarkable Roanoke Rapids: Full of Aladdin Kit Homes | Sears Modern Homes
If you think houses built from kits are shoddy, cheap and obvious -- think again. Between 1908 and 1940, Sears sold about 70,000 kit homes in 48 states through their mail-order Modern Homes program, with 370 designs that you might not...
While these days we don't think twice about ordering all kinds of things online, with giants like Amazon offering pretty much anything you could possibly imagine shipped to your doorstep, the mail-order concept goes back much further than you might think, and you could even get an entire house delivered by mail.
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Is My House a Sears House? The Nine Easy Signs. | Sears Modern Homes
In the early 20th century, a handful of companies, including Sears, Roebuck and Co., sold tens of thousands of mail-order homes. Available in a variety of styles and at a range of price points, these “kit houses” would arrive via railroad boxcar as precut and fitted materials, which the owner or a local contractor would assemble into a new house. Sears ceased production of their catalog homes in 1940, but many still stand today. Check out these 12 mail-order houses that have not only survived, but look very much like they did in the heyday of the kit home.
Imagine that the year is 1910 and you have just moved with your family to Montana. The last spike of the Milwaukee Road was driven in last year just west of Garrison, and the small town where you live is now accessible by rail from both the West Coast and the distant metropolis of Chicago.
The Sears Crafton was possibly Sears best-selling kit home. It was offered for more than two decades in the Sears Modern Homes catalogs, and remained popular
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