The Norwood Sash and Door Manufacturing Co. of Ohio was a division of Sears from 1912 to 1945. Cincinnati customers were ...

This updated, expanded Craftsman home from Sears was probably built using the 1915 Bandon kit. The four-bedroom house features the original long-leaf pine floors, built-ins, and wavy-glass windows; 12 ...

Even homes. 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.

Nearby is the Five Mile Prairie Schoolhouse, which was built a few blocks north and a few years before the home. It is listed ...

“I never heard of Sears mail-order houses until I began talking to neighbors ... Beginning in the late 1800s, retailers such as Sears, Roebuck and Co. sent out fat catalogs filled with ...

Despite the use of prefabricated houses dating back to western migration in the 1800s and to “catalog houses” sold by Sears, ...

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The architectural style's abandonment of Victorian-era formality make historic Foursquare homes easily adapted to modern ...

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In its heyday, Sears dominated the United States from its headquarters in Chicago, once the country’s tallest tower. The retailer won over patrons with mail-order catalogs by taking advantage of ...