Architectural channel This House explained how the Sears mail-order home kits of the early 1900s created a simple way to ...
The company most commonly associated with the phrase "kit home" is Sears - yes, the bankrupt department store. That's because from the early 1900s to almost the 1950s, Sears was one of the major ...
Homes built after 1916 can be identified as Sears kit homes by numbers stamped on the ... of her beautifully preserved Sears homes — a 1920 model called The Crescent — after reading the ...