VICTOR, N.Y. — Sears Roebuck and Co. started selling mail-order houses from its specialty catalog — the Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans — in 1908. It is reported that more than ...

As customers leafed their way through the more than 100,000 items on the 1,200 pages of the 1908 Sears catalog, ... of Sears's new "Book of Modern Homes," which featured house plans and building ...

Standing squarely in the living room of his new home in downtown Pleasanton, Emil Oxsen straddles the past and the present with the grace of a gymnast on a balancing beam. Oxsen's beam, however ...

When Sears executives closed the book on catalog operations last month, they may have been borrowing a page from the company’s past. In 1940, hard times forced Sears, Roebuck & Co. to fo… ...

TAMAQUA – Jim Hain believes his grandparents, Charles and Catherine Houser, ordered a new house from a Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog in the late 1920s or early 1930s. “The house was … ...

A Venice house promoted as a Sears kit home has enjoyed incredible ... Through its Modern Homes catalog, Sears sold dwellings complete with ... Of the 31 home plans offered by Sears in ...

Collette King wrote to tell me about her home in Coden, which was built by a local shipbuilder from catalog plans that pre-date Sears Modern Homes. "My home was built in 1898 by Charles E. Graham ...

It is interesting to order a house from a catalog. Along (with it) would come a wagon with lumber already cut and assembled to put up your house." Sears sold more than 70,000 homes in America ...

Sep. 5—TAMAQUA — Jim Hain believes his grandparents, Charles and Catherine Houser, ordered a new house from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog in the late 1920s or early 1930s. "The house was ...