Alicia Dallago had no clue that the McCandless home she bought in 1998 represented a unique slice of American history. She was just enthralled by the way it looked and made her feel when she stepped ...

Rosemary Thornton , nationally recognized authority on the Sears and Roebuck mail-order, fabricated homes, will present her inventory of Sears Homes in Waynesboro at the October History Lecture at WTA ...

There's no place like home, particularly when it comes in 30,000 pieces from a Sears mail-order catalog. Gary and Pat Robert have such a house. Built in 1911, the Dutch colonial, two-story frame house ...

Sears was not the first company to offer mail-ordered "kit homes," but by the time the catalog was discontinued in 1940, Sears is estimated to have sold between 70,000 and 75,000 houses. The homes ...

The average cost to buy a home in Florida in 2025 is hovering around $385,000, according to Zillow’s most current Florida housing market data. But there was once a time, about 85 years ago, when you ...

Do you live in a Sears mail-order house? You can find out Tuesday. Rebecca Hunter of Elgin, Ill., a researcher of historical architecture, will present a program on mail-order homes at 7 p.m. Tuesday ...