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 ...

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 ...

Long before Amazon and internet shopping, you could buy almost anything from a mail-order catalog. Clothing, furniture, jewelry, toys, plant seeds. Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick ...

Sears, Roebuck & Co. once dominated the mail-order industry by offering a catalog full of nearly every product imaginable. Then the company hit on an idea: what if Sears could offer an entire home ...

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 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 ...

Through its Modern Homes catalog, Sears sold dwellings complete with precut and fitted materials, according to the Sears Archives, and the roughly 370 designs included styles such as English cottage, ...

1895–1900 — Building supplies are sold through Sears, Roebuck and Company general catalog 1906. Sears considered closing its unprofitable building supplies department. Frank W. Kushel (formerly ...

This week, readers wondered about Sears homes among us and landfill roadways. Q: Are there any Sears catalog homes in Hutchinson, and if there are, where are they? Short answer, yes. As for where they ...