“Sears houses, it’s kind of become a general catch-all for house kits,” said Bill Burg, a local historian. “And there were ...

From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.

sent out fat catalogs filled with everything ... built to create a true snapshot of what the home would have looked like during the early 1920s. Sears no longer has records of where all of its ...

Uniquely is a Sacramento Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Sacramento area so special. Minnie Kendall’s Roseville house was said to ...

compare them with pictures from old Sears catalogs and quickly know if the house is the real thing. In California, the answer is almost always no. The transport of a Sears Modern Home house by rail to ...

Uniquely is a Sacramento Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Sacramento area so special. Minnie Kendall’s Roseville house was ...

which dates back to the 1920s. They long suspected it was a Sears kit house—sold via catalogue from Sears, Roebuck and Co. and shipped to the buyer via railroad boxcars. Michelle’s neighbor ...

Starting around 1908, Sears started selling prefabricated homes via its “Modern Homes” catalogs. Prices ranged from below ...

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