The story went that Kendall’s first husband Richard Layton died in 1933 at age 23 after an illness. She used insurance money to purchase a house by mail order – from Sears, family was told – that she ...
She used insurance money to purchase a house by mail order – from Sears, family was told ... to Model 272 in Pacific Ready-Cut’s 1925 catalog, though there are some caveats.
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.
She used insurance money to purchase a house by mail order – from Sears, family was told – that she had built around 1935 at 217 Los Vegas Ave. Her new boyfriend who she would later marry ...
A family stands on the front porch of their Sears home – a model dubbed “The Westly” in the 1920s catalog – in Raleigh, N.C., in 2011. CHELSEA KELLNER Raleigh News & Observer file “The ...
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.