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.
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 ...
The Calumet Heritage Partnership and the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees or SOAR chapter of the United Steelworkers Museum have been working with the Museum of Science and Industry to ...
Sears and its parent ESL Investments did not respond to requests for comment. The department store chain, founded as Sears, Roebuck and Co. in 1893 and hailed in the 1980s as America’s largest ...