Architectural channel This House explained how the Sears mail-order home kits of the early 1900s created a simple way to purchase a nice home for a fraction of the cost. As demand for these home ...

That's because from the early 1900s to almost the 1950s, Sears was one of the major sellers of kit homes in America alongside companies like Aladdin and Montgomery Ward. The store had always sold ...

Statewide, about 1,900 Sears catalog homes have been identified ... Homes built after 1916 can be identified as Sears kit homes by numbers stamped on the timbers. Normajean Moser of McCandless ...