Beginning in1908, catalog customers could browse among styles and models of homes, then they could order all the materials to build it.

As a result, according to Sears Homes Chicagoland blogger Lara Solonickne, the average 3,000 square foot Sears kit house cost about $6,500 in 1930, or about $119,269.33 in today’s money.

When she started her search for a house, Amy Balicki didn’t set out to buy a Sears kit home in Downers Grove, Illinois – but she probably should have. That’s because Downers Grove was a prime location ...

Sears sold an estimated 75,000 houses between 1908 and 1942, Mutch said. His own database includes addresses for 73 kit homes in Lansing, East Lansing and Delta Township.

What: This is no ordinary century-old colonial home: It was built in 1923 from a kit ordered through a Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. Where: The two-story is at 424 19th St. NW in Canton's historic ...

Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.

Instead, he had the idea to sell entire houses by mail. In 1908, Sears published “Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans,” the first catalog devoted to mail-order homes.

Sears began offering house plans in 1908 and made pre-cut homes from 1915 to 1940. The average Sears kit home consisted of 30,000 pieces and came with a 75-page instruction manual. 0 Comments ...

July 04, 2024 at 11:54 pm CDT Downers Grove has a great deal of confirmed Sears Kit Homes, 68 as a matter of fact. Many of the examples in town have made it nearly to or exceeded the 100-year mark. A ...

A modest, 1,100-square-foot white building with two bedrooms and a gently peaked roof, the home was originally constructed in 1959.