Kit-related catalog entries featured a sketch of the house, a floor plan, and a basic cost that ranged from $360 to more than $2,000. All the kits included at least two bedrooms, a kitchen, a ...

Meet the new mobile home Manufactured houses deliver the American dream amid tough housing market Handful of Sears stores remain. In 2018, Sears entered bankruptcy and shrunk from about 700 brick ...

Sears kit homes came in many sizes and styles, from simple one-room cabins to 10-room houses. Many of the plans were copied from popular architects' designs, then mass-produced to be affordable ...

Sears Modern Homes were kit homes and the framing members were stamped with a letter and a number to help facilitate construction. Today, those marks can help prove that you have a kit home.Look ...

In 1908, Sears published “Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans,” the first catalog devoted to mail-order homes. The high-quality Honor Bilt Modern Homes ranged in price from $650 to $2,500 ...

Between 1908 and 1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold about 70,000 kit homes in more than 300 home designs. Over the years, this home eventually fell into disrepair until it was rescued by its ...

A Midcentury Sears Kit Home in New York (Mostly) Shakes Off a ’90s Hangover. ... "BoND’s aim was to simplify the interior while also blurring the boundaries of the rigid modernist floor plan.

While an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 homes were built through the Sears Modern Homes collection between 1908 and 1942, in styles like Craftsman, Colonial and bungalow, the high cost of shipping ...

Sears kit homes carried a price tag of about $659 that included all the materials needed to construct a home, sans the cost of the home site and concrete to get the project started. As a result, ...

In 1908, Sears published “Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans,” the first catalog devoted to mail-order homes. The high-quality Honor Bilt Modern Homes ranged in price from $650 to $2,500 ...