Between 1908 and 1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold nearly 75,000 kit homes through its Modern Homes program, which featured 447 styles of houses, ranging from large multistory dwellings to tiny ...
“I never heard of Sears mail-order houses until I began talking to neighbors ... Beginning in the late 1800s, retailers such as Sears, Roebuck and Co. sent out fat catalogs filled with ...