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

Louis, Missouri, Chabot is part of an online group that researches Sears ... compare them with pictures from old Sears catalogs and quickly know if the house is the real thing.

In its heyday, Sears dominated the US from its headquarters in Chicago, once the country’s tallest tower. The retailer won ...

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

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.

(SHLD). Its history dates to 1886, when a railroad station agent named Richard Sears began selling gold watches by mail ...

Sears was once one of the leading names ... to include casual clothing and general furnishings online and through mail-order catalogs. The misplaced apostrophe at the end of Lands' was a typo ...

The company even went so far as to take its entire catalog merchandising ... or Facebook. Sears is also leveraging traditional public relations efforts, targeted print, online media and various ...

Hotels and guesthouses filled with elaborate escape-room-style puzzles to solve are attracting travelers looking for more ...