We check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in the 1920s. To commemorate Mail Order Catalog Day on August 18, we’ll check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Sale Real Estate Sign in Front of New House. Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything ...

MCCANDLESS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — If home is where the heart is, then those living in houses built from Sears’ mail-order kits may have fallen head-over-heels. Statewide, about 1,900 Sears catalog homes have ...

The Magnolia home was one of the largest offered through the Sears catalog. Sears sold more than 70,000 mail-order homes between 1908 and 1940. Some enthusiasts estimate that about 70 percent of Sears ...

The Sears catalog is just a memory now, but during its heyday, home shoppers could order just about anything from it, including the home itself. One such home, standing in what was once a Crystal Lake ...

A large cluster of Sears homes can be found in the Mountainview section of Hellertown. More than 60 homes were built in the neighborhood east of Dimmick Park in the early ’40s from kits ordered ...

Anything could be bought from a Sears catalog: kitchen tables, lamps, clothes, dishes, stoves, mantels — everything you could ever need. You could even buy your house from Sears. Imagine paging ...

Sears closed its last big-box store in Charleston this year, but the retail giant's legacy lives on in a handful of catalog-ordered "kit homes" scattered across the Uptown. The Sears, Roebuck and Co.

Many people are familiar with the homes that were shown in old Sears/Roebuck catalogs and shipped in pieces, but as far as I know, none of these homes exist in Santa Barbara. We do, however, have more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The average cost to buy a home in Florida in 2025 is hovering around $385,000, according to Zillow’s most current Florida housing ...

With Sears in bankruptcy, a Venice home said to be from the retailer’s catalog reminds of better times This 1923 Venice home was built from a mail-order kit, maybe from Sears.