Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Sale Real Estate Sign in Front of New House. Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything ...

When you think of Sears today, you may think of a place at the mall where you’d buy tools or a pair of jeans. But if you turn the dial back a century, the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog was also a way ...

A large cluster of Sears homes can be found in the Mountainview section of Hellertown. More than 60 homes were built in the neighborhood east of Dimmick Park in the early ’40s from kits ordered ...

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 ...

There’s a house on Sanibel that has stood the test of time and built the same way you would build with Legos. Ty Symroski grew up in the classic 1922 Sears Roebuck catalog home, a home that was picked ...

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 ...

Is that good-looking bungalow of yours a Sears Kit Home? How can you find out? What should you look for? And what does it mean to have a Sears Kit Home? Each month, I receive dozens of emails from ...

Southern California was just beginning to develop a taste for suburban sprawl in 1923 when an enterprising Venice property owner built a charming Craftsman home using plans and materials purchased ...