According to an article in the May 15, 2006 edition of the Wall Street Journal, about 70,000 to 100,000 homes made by Sears, Roebuck and Co. were sold through Sears catalogs from 1908 to 1940.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Sale Real Estate Sign in Front of New House. Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything ...

FALL RIVER — Before there was Amazon Prime, there was the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog. The retail giant's catalog, printed from 1892 to 1993, featured any product an American consumer could ever need ...

Sears and Roebuck knew how to reach customers in the far corners of the country -- decades before the Internet. By the turn of the 20 th century, Sears had taken advantage of the nationwide rail ...

We check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in the 1920s. To commemorate Mail Order Catalog Day on August 18, we’ll check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in ...

I can’t remember when I first learned of Sears Roebuck homes, but it must have been decades ago. There are several in the county and one was on Greene County’s Tour of Homes when it was in Durham in ...

Many people are familiar with the homes that were shown in old Sears/Roebuck catalogs and shipped in pieces, but as far as I know, none of these homes exist in Santa Barbara. We do, however, have more ...

Sears, Roebuck & Co. once dominated the mail-order industry by offering a catalog full of nearly every product imaginable. Then the company hit on an idea: what if Sears could offer an entire home ...

If home is where the heart is, then those living in houses built from Sears’ mail-order kits may have fallen head-over-heels. A recent Tribune-Review story about a 1922 Sears mail-order home in ...

Over the decades, the kit homes ranged in price from $3,000 to $10,000 depending on the size, design and scope. The companies also sold garages, boilers, chicken coops, bathtubs and built-in shelving.

A few weeks ago, while taking two of my now-teenage granddaughters shopping for outfits for a sports banquet, I became nostalgic. As we were walking through Penney’s, I tried to explain to them the ...

It’s not 1939 outside. But this unfortunate date (see above) hasn’t prevented me from perusing, in some detail, the Fall-Winter catalog from Sears, Roebuck and Co. They are perhaps my only costly vice ...