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Sears Catalog ‘Kit Homes’ From the Early 20th Century
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4 hours ago Sears Catalog Homes (sold under the Sears Modern Homes name) were catalog and kit houses sold primarily through mail order by Sears, Roebuck and Company, an American retailer. Sears reported that more than 70,000 of these homes were sold in North America between 1908 and 1940.

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7 Charming Sears Catalog Homes You Can Buy Today  …
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1 hours ago And with this stroke of genius, the Sears & Roebuck Kit Homes were born. Sold under the Sears Modern Homes brand, the kits soon became a huge hit; selling thousands of homes all across the country in the company’s 33-year history. For this week’s listing of the week, we decided to find seven charming Sears Catalog homes you can actually buy

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Kit Houses from Sears, Roebuck  The OldHouse Journal
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4 hours ago From 1908 until 1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold over 70,000 kit houses through their Modern Homes and Honor Bilt catalogs. Designs for 370 different plans ranged from the elaborate to the simple; the ‘Goldenrod’, for example, was a three-room vacation cottage (no bath, out-house separate). Read more about Sears Houses

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This Sears, Roebuck Catalog Home Is Over 100 Years Old
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1 hours ago This two-story home, model No. 118 in the catalog, in Thorn Hill, TN, is available for $285,000. “This house was a Sears, Roebuck house that they ordered out of …

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Sears Catalog Kit Houses  how to identify a Sears Catalog
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7 hours ago Sears Catalog Homes: Sears Roebuck is estimated to have sold 100,000 catalog homes in the U.S. between 1908 and 1940, with probably the heaviest individual sales years before 1929. Sears Roebuck's business model differed from some or all of the other kit home marketers by offering an accompanying home mortgage to their customers beginning in 1916.

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Sears Modern Homes 1908, 4th Edition : Sears, Roebuck …
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Just Now Sears Modern Homes, Sears Roebuck, Kit Homes, Craftsman Homes, Vintage Home Plans, Bungalows, Foursquare Home, Victorian Home Plans Language English. Sears Modern Homes Catalog 1908, 4th Edition. Rachel Shoemaker Collection. Addeddate 2016-05-11 16:26:09 Identifier Sears19084thEdRJSCover Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t47q3nv8c Scanner …

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Sears Homes 19081914  Sears Archives
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4 hours ago Sears has opened the doors to its vast archival collection and invited the public to peek inside. More than 100 years of stories, product and brand histories, photographs, catalog images and more are now available online.

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Sears Catalog Homes We Love  Bob Vila
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2 hours ago Historic Homes & More; 11 Vintage Houses That Came from a Catalog In the early 20th century, a handful of companies, including Sears, Roebuck and Co., sold tens of …

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Sears Is Crumbling, but These 9 Sears Catalog Homes Still
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6 hours ago More than 70,000 “Sears Modern Homes” were sold between 1908 and 1940. These easy-to-assemble, mail-order homes were shipped across the United States and Canada, according to the Sears archives.

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Sears Homes 1908–1940  myWorldWeb
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5 hours ago From 1908–1940, Sears, Roebuck and Company sold more than 100,000 homes through their mail-order Modern Homes program. Over that time Sears designed 447 different housing styles, from the elaborate multistory Ivanhoe, with its elegant French doors and art glass windows, to the simpler Goldenrod, which served as a quaint, three-room and no

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The History of Sears Kit Homes  The Craftsman Blog
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Just Now It may be hard to believe now, but Sears, Roebuck & Co. (Sears) helped build American neighborhoods as we know them today. Sears kit homes were an easy way for members of the middle class to realize their dreams of homeownership. Once purchased by catalog, the building materials were shipped in railroad cars and fully erected in as little as 90

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Sears Modern Homes 1930 : Sears, Roebuck & Co : Free
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9 hours ago The Sears Modern Homes catalog from 1930. The cover house is the Sears Lewiston.Rachel Shoemaker Collection

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Sears Sold 70,000 Homes From Their Catalog, Are You Living
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2 hours ago From 1908 to 1940, you could choose from over 400 styles of homes to purchase through Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order catalog. By Timothy Dahl May 16, 2016

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1 hours ago Jul 3, 2016 - Explore Robin Rose's board "SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. KIT HOMES 1908- 1940", followed by 110 people on Pinterest. See more ideas …

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U.S., Historic Catalogs of Sears, Roebuck and Co., 18961993
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9 hours ago About U.S., Historic Catalogs of Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1896-1993 From a printed mailer in 1888 to the final publication in 1993, the Sears Catalog has grown into an important record of what life was like through the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Sears Modern Homes  Wikipedia
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8 hours ago Sears Modern Homes were catalog and kit houses sold primarily through mail order by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer.. From 1908 to 1940, more than 70,000 of these houses were sold in North America, by the company's count. Sears Modern Homes were purchased primarily by customers in East Coast and Midwest states, but have been located as far south …

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Sears Homes 19151920  Sears Archives
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8 hours ago Sears has opened the doors to its vast archival collection and invited the public to peek inside. More than 100 years of stories, product and brand histories, photographs, catalog images and more are now available online.

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Can you buy a house from sears roebuck catalog?

From 1908 to 1940, you could choose from over 400 styles of homes to purchase through Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order catalog. Not long ago, the Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order catalog was the ultimate marketplace, much like Amazon is today. You could even buy a house straight from the catalog.

What is a sears catalog home?

Sears Catalog Homes (sold under the Sears Modern Homes name) were catalog and kit houses sold primarily through mail order by Sears, Roebuck and Company, an American retailer.

How many homes did sears roebuck sell in 1908?

Sears Roebuck is estimated to have sold 100,000 catalog homes in the U.S. between 1908 and 1940, with probably the heaviest individual sales years before 1929. Sears Roebuck's business model differed from some or all of the other kit home marketers by offering an accompanying home mortgage to their customers beginning in 1916.

What is a searsroebuck kit home?

Instead of hiring an architect and an army of carpenters, prospective homeowners could now simply place an order and get plans and building materials delivered right to their property. And with this stroke of genius, the Sears & Roebuck Kit Homes were born.

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