A Kenmore House – by Montgomery Ward!

by | Oct 5, 2011 | Uncategorized | 2 comments

Sears started selling kit homes in 1908. Montgomery Ward followed suit in 1909. Sears started offering financing (mortgages) on their kit homes in 1917. Montgomery Ward reluctantly began offering mortgages in 1925. In 1931, Montgomery Ward saw the writing on the wall...

A Montgomery Ward Kenmore?

by | Aug 11, 2010 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Kenmore is a name most of us associate with Sears products. For years and years, my mother had a Sears Kenmore sewing machine that she’d bought in 1949, a few weeks before my eldest brother was born. It was purchased so she could sew my brother’s layette.(...