From 1908 to 1940, you could choose from over 400 styles of homes to purchase through Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order catalog. By Timothy Dahl Published: May 16, 2016 9:37 AM EDT Liz West ...

Ancestry.com now has the complete collection of Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogs from 1896 to 1993, spring and fall seasons, available for viewing on its website.. Comprising more than 250,000 ...

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 the 1920s, and still standing today. Between 1908-1940, Sears sold ...

Recently sold for $290,000, this West Virginia home was model No. 158 when it was purchased from Sears, Roebuck for about $3,000 over a century ago. The post From Catalog to Closing: The ...

West Chicago has hired Sears house historian Rebecca Hunter to train a team of volunteers to survey the Sears and other catalog homes here.Hunter, an Elgin resident, cataloged Elgin’s 215 Sears ...

From 1908 to 1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold kit homes through a mail-order catalog. ... Sears lost out. The Modern Homes catalog ceased in 1934, but returned the following year, ...

Lisa Schrott and Brian McWilliams had no idea their house was a catalog-order Sears, Roebuck and Company home when they bought it. Schrott and McWilliams were living in South Carolina, ...

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 ...

Carolee Smith, co-owner of the recently renovated Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog house she owns with her husband, Oliver, discusses the interior on Aug. 28 during a tour of the home, which they rent ...