We check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in the 1920s. To commemorate Mail Order Catalog Day on August 18, we’ll check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in ...

Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything you needed from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog—including a house. In the early 20th century, the massive Sears ...

Just a few weeks after Lorie and Tom Annarella moved into their Downers Grove home, they looked out the window and saw a man with a camera and a high-powered lens taking pictures of their house. Not ...

Sears closed its last big-box store in Charleston this year, but the retail giant's legacy lives on in a handful of catalog-ordered "kit homes" scattered across the Uptown. The Sears, Roebuck and Co.

Anything could be bought from a Sears catalog: kitchen tables, lamps, clothes, dishes, stoves, mantels — everything you could ever need. You could even buy your house from Sears. Imagine paging ...

The Magnolia home was one of the largest offered through the Sears catalog. Sears sold more than 70,000 mail-order homes between 1908 and 1940. Some enthusiasts estimate that about 70 percent of Sears ...

Many people are familiar with the homes that were shown in old Sears/Roebuck catalogs and shipped in pieces, but as far as I know, none of these homes exist in Santa Barbara. We do, however, have more ...

CARLINVILLE, ILL. — She speaks with the fervor of a woman possessed. In the cadence of a grange hall auctioneer, Laurie Flori jabs a finger at each house on her street, every one ordered from Sears, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The average cost to buy a home in Florida in 2025 is hovering around $385,000, according to Zillow’s most current Florida housing ...

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 ...

With Sears in bankruptcy, a Venice home said to be from the retailer’s catalog reminds of better times This 1923 Venice home was built from a mail-order kit, maybe from Sears.