News 2 You: Remembering Your Host restaurants, the Sears catalog and a Hollywood star from Buffalo
Buffalo got its first stand alone hummer dealership, call center jobs were really big in these parts, and the Bills put their ...
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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How the Sears Pre-Fab Mail Order Home Kits of the 1900s Led to the Modern Tiny House Movement
Sears kit homes were popular in the early part of the 20th century. Learn all about these mail-ordered, catalog homes as we ...
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Sears used to sell homes by mail. Cincinnati may have more than any other city
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.
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Some Sacramento homes might be built from kits. But did they come from the Sears catalog?
Uniquely is a Sacramento Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Sacramento area so special. Minnie Kendall’s Roseville house was ...
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Some Sacramento homes might be built from kits. But did they come from the Sears catalog?
Chabot can look at contemporary photos from Google Maps or real estate listings, compare them with pictures from old Sears catalogs and quickly know if the house is the real thing. In California ...