Sears used to sell homes by mail. Cincinnati has the most still standing.
The Norwood Sash and Door Manufacturing Co. of Ohio was a division of Sears from 1912 to 1945. Cincinnati customers were ...
Some Sacramento homes might be built from kits. But did they come from the Sears catalog?
“Sears houses, it’s kind of become a general catch-all for house kits,” said Bill Burg, a local historian. “And there were ...
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Sears used to sell homes by mail. Cincinnati may have more than any other city
Long before Amazon and internet shopping, you could buy almost anything from a mail-order catalog. Clothing, furniture, jewelry, toys, plant seeds. Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could ...
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Snake Oil and Guns: A Look Back at Old Sears Catalogs
Starting around 1908, Sears started selling prefabricated homes via its “Modern Homes” catalogs. Prices ranged from below ...