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 ...

Beginning in the late 1800s, retailers such as Sears, Roebuck and Co. sent out fat catalogs ... only sold all a family could need to furnish a home, between 1908 and 1940 it sold the house itself ...

In the story, homeowner Alicia Dallago said she had no idea the home she bought in 1998 was built from a kit. Between 1908 and 1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold nearly 75,000 kit homes through its ...

Alvah Roebuck in an undated photo ... the home improvement business of the Sears Home Services Division and the Parts Direct business of Sears Home Services. Sears Holdings Co. had been exploring ...