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$375,000.
1 hours ago Asking: $375,000. Sears Modern Homes Model: The Crescent. Year Built: 1929. Listing Agent: Steve Heilig. Listing Brokerage: Baird & Warner. Over in Sears & Roebuck’s home state of Illinois, we found this gorgeous Crescent model Sears catalog home up for sale at a tantalizing price.
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3 hours ago The tiny houses that have become popular in recent years, which cost as little as $20,000 for materials (or $86,500 for a modern 745-square-foot home from IKEA), are good comparisons to the old Sears catalog homes.. For what it's worth, folks who are curious about the seemingly cheap DIY homes of a century ago can readily buy vintage books featuring …
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$179,900.
6 hours ago Price: $179,900. Historic house: Built in 1911, this Sears home sits on a large, corner lot in a historic district, surrounded by antebellum homes. Measuring in at a roomy 3,500 square feet, the
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4 hours ago Sears Catalog Homes (sold under the Sears Modern Homes name) were catalog and kit houses sold primarily through mail order by Sears, Roebuck and Company, an …
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1 hours ago Old House Journal. Publish Date: Built in 1931, this “Cedars” in St. Louis was a popular house design from the Sears Honor Bilt Modern Homes catalog. Nobody’s counting, but it seems …
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4 hours ago Sears has opened the doors to its vast archival collection and invited the public to peek inside. More than 100 years of stories, product and brand histories, photographs, catalog images and …
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1 hours ago Sears Catalog Homes (sold under the Sears Modern Homes name) were catalog and kit houses sold primarily through mail order by Sears, Roebuck and Company, an …
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8 hours ago More than 100 years of stories, product and brand histories, photographs, catalog images and more are now available online. Kmart History Search Archives Sears Holdings Alumni
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7 hours ago Pacific Kit Homes: a California catalog home company in the construction business from 1908 to at least 1940. (The company made surfboards 1929-1940), possibly selling kit homes for at …
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8 hours ago It’s sort of an architectural version of birdwatching, and the field guide for spotting old Sears homes is Houses By Mail (Katherine Cole Stevenson and H. Ward Jandl, …
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Just Now Sears Catalog Homes (sold under the Sears Modern Homes name) were catalog and kit houses sold primarily through mail order by Sears, Roebuck, and Company, an American …
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5 hours ago From 1908–1940, Sears, Roebuck and Company sold more than 100,000 homes through their mail-order Modern Homes program. Over that time Sears designed 447 different …
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7 hours ago Great deals on Sears Catalog. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at eBay.com. Fast & Free shipping on many items! Price + Shipping: …
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9 hours ago The Sears Modern Homes catalog from 1930. The cover house is the Sears Lewiston.Rachel Shoemaker Collection. Skip to main content. Due to a planned power outage …
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Just Now They Could Be Worth Millions Now. Realtor. Many of these homes are actually still standing, and some of them could be worth millions. One such home was a 1925 Colonial in Washington, …
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1 hours ago From 1908 to 1940, Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Sears Modern Home division sold more than 70,000 kit homes in 370 designs. Model No. 118 was also known as The Clyde.
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5 hours ago Between 1908 and 1940, Sears sold over 70,000 of these DIY houses across America. Sears Catalog Homes were kit houses that you could buy from their catalog. Sent by mail order, an …
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When in 1908 Sears began its Modern Homes program, the company was in a brilliant position to reach interested people. And the same four-pound catalog that made home purchases possible also contained all necessary furnishments, from living room furniture to bathroom towels. Why did a company renowned for its catalog success choose to sell homes?
The Sears home kits sold like hotcakes, and between 1908 and 1940, the company sold over 70,000 such houses. Though they primarily focused on small farming towns, their DIY house kits were sold all over the country. As Sears Catalog Homes became popular, the company divided its products into three categories based on build quality and pricing.
The number one question I’m asked again and again – How do you identify a Sears Kit Home?