SCOTTS Morgan and Pam Macomber dreamed of finding just the right house -- one evoking a special ambiance of the past. They'd driven past the red house, but they had no idea it had been a 1928 Sears ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The average cost to buy a home in Florida in 2025 is hovering around $385,000, according to Zillow’s most current Florida housing ...

FALL RIVER — Before there was Amazon Prime, there was the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog. The retail giant's catalog, printed from 1892 to 1993, featured any product an American consumer could ever need ...

The arrival of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog was a much-anticipated event in most local households in the early 20th century. Dad got to see the latest in tools and machinery, Mom marveled at the ...

In a 1926 advertisement in its Modern Homes catalog, Sears, Roebuck ballyhooed a mail-order home called the Verona as follows: "Dutch Colonial with four bedrooms, one full bath and a lavatory; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They were shipped from Chicago via boxcar and came with 10,000 to 30,000 pieces, a 75-page instruction book and a promise that “a man of average abilities could assemble a Sears kit home in about 90 ...