This updated, expanded Craftsman home from Sears was probably built using the 1915 Bandon kit. The four-bedroom house features the original long-leaf pine floors, built-ins, and wavy-glass windows ...

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.

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 ...

Sears, Roebuck and Co, known typically as Sears, is mostly struggling because of competition from other retailers, such as Walmart and Best Buy — though some questionable business decisions didn ...

“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 ...

What began in the 1890s as a mail order catalogue shipped out to the homes of Americans by two titans of the retail industry, Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck, had by the 20th century turned into ...

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Once home to a Sears, Roebuck & Co. retail store and warehouse distribution center for the South, the Ponce City Market is now a massive mixed-use facility featuring offices, education centers ...

Sears, Roebuck, & Co. could practically touch the sky in 1969. At the height of its powers, the retailer began constructing a Chicago skyscraper to house its employees that year. Finished in 1973 ...

Builders also loved installing flat-mount light fixtures newfangled concrete-based homes because they didn ... Designers like Virden, Beller, even Sears and Roebuck created fixtures in this ...