A home in McCandless that was ordered from a Sears catalog in 1922 is now on the market. The house at 8828 Memorial Drive was one of the many home kits sold in the United States through the mail-order ...

The original 1926 Sears & Roebuck label identifying the house at 115 Belleclaire Avenue in Longmeadow as a Sears kit house. The label includes the name of the recipient of the Sears kit house, the ...

SCOTTS Morgan and Pam Macomber dreamed of finding just the right house -- one evoking a special ambiance of the past. They'd driven past the red house, but they had no idea it had been a 1928 Sears ...

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 said to ...

VICTOR, N.Y. — Sears Roebuck and Co. started selling mail-order houses from its specialty catalog — the Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans — in 1908. It is reported that more than 100,000 houses ...

The world may say goodbye to Sears, but the company's assemble-it-yourself homes will live on. Kit houses were available in Sears’ catalog books from 1908 to 1940. Shoppers could flip through the ...

A house built from a Sears catalog kit in the 1920s that has been abandoned for the last 20 years is becoming a popular photo stop. "It's kind of a ghost house," resident Michelle Jones told KRQE.

FALL RIVER — Before there was Amazon Prime, there was the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog. The retail giant's catalog, printed from 1892 to 1993, featured any product an American consumer could ever need ...

ESTANCIA, N.M. (CBS Local)-- An abandoned house in a small town southeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico, attracts people from across the region. Many think it's haunted. "If you drive by, sometimes you ...

Is that good-looking bungalow of yours a Sears Kit Home? How can you find out? What should you look for? And what does it mean to have a Sears Kit Home? Each month, I receive dozens of emails from ...

Sears’s history is the history of U.S. consumerism, its catalog the picture book of an expanding 19th- and 20th-century America. Depending on the decade, consumers could order lumber, nails and paint, ...