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 ...

Factory-built homes today share a similar legacy with the iconic Sears Roebuck kit homes but leverage modern technology for greater efficiency, quality, and customization. Unlike the early 20th ...

Few major things would alter that routine, but the one thing that did was the arrival of the Sears and Roebuck Company catalog also known as ‘The Christmas Book.’ The Christmas Book’s appearance in ...

Botkin lived in Missouri and East Texas before the instruments were damaged in a 1903 family house fire. The case may thus be a later replacement and possibly is handmade. The date of the instruments ...