by Sears Homes | Sep 24, 2014 | Uncategorized |
“Sears sold about 70,000 kit homes during their 32 years in the kit house business,” I tell folks at my lectures, “but judging from my emails, you’d think that number was 70 million kit homes.” Some people really, really, really want...
by Sears Homes | May 28, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The banner at the top of the catalog page identifies The Wabash as “Uncle Sam’s Idea.” According to the accompanying text, this house was “planned and designed by United States Government architects.” The house appeared in the Spring 1920...
by Sears Homes | Nov 21, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Sears Modern Homes – the kit homes that were sold from 1908-1940 – were not (emphasis on NOT) prefab houses. Prefabricated houses are – as the word suggests – prefabricated. In other words, they’re pre-built at a central plant, broken...
by Sears Homes | Jul 6, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Sears Homes in Tulsa? That was my first thought when Rachel Shoemaker of Tulsa contacted me. She said that she thought there were several homes in her town. Now if she’d been writing from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan or Ohio, I wouldn’t have been so...
by Sears Homes | Jan 26, 2011 | Uncategorized |
If you could spend a day in the early 1900s, you might have a little trouble understanding what people were saying! Some words had radically different meanings. For instance, there’s the word “slacker.” A slacker was any able-bodied young man who...
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