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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...