As recently as 1953, new-car shoppers could avoid dealerships by ordering directly from their Sears catalog or nearest retail outlet. Named after the insurance company that owned the department-store ...

Beginning in1908, catalog customers could browse among styles and models of homes, then they could order all the materials to build it.

Sears’ slow death, which started in the 1990s with the rise of discount retailers like Walmart and online shopping platforms ...

Sears sold 70,000 of them, many in Bloomington. In fact, if you google "Sears catalog houses Bloomington, IL," you can read about and see them, including photos of a home along South Grove in ...

Elon Musk has quietly taken back one of Los Angeles' most legendary homes, Gene Wilder’s former estate, after foreclosing on ...

Sometimes, all we know about an artist from the past comes from their artwork. This is especially true of folk and outsider ...

Glascock County, Georgia, received a $3.5 million check from FEMA to cover remaining cleanup costs from Hurricane Helene.

Stonefield was once a 2,000-acre estate owned by Nelson Dewey, the first governor of Wisconsin. It was where he built a three ...

Then, in December of 2014, Towne West lost Sears, whose parent company had struggled to compete with big box retailers like ...

LIME CITY – Perrysburg Township has finalized the cost of its new administration building. At the township trustees’ June 18 ...