CARLINVILLE, Ill. — She speaks with the fervor of a woman possessed. In the cadence of a grange hall auctioneer, Laurie Flori jabs a finger at each house on her street, every one ordered from Sears, ...

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 ...

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 complete, and they ...

According to a Realtor.com report, the three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom, 3,300-square-foot house in Celina, Texas, was originally purchased in 1910 from the Sears catalog. Sears sold as many as 75,000 ...

The Magnolia home was one of the largest offered through the Sears catalog. Sears sold more than 70,000 mail-order homes between 1908 and 1940. Some enthusiasts estimate that about 70 percent of Sears ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mary Cirelli's house was built more than a century ago from a kit ordered from a Sears catalog. The Magnolia was one of the most ...

There’s a house on Sanibel that has stood the test of time and built the same way you would build with Legos. Ty Symroski grew up in the classic 1922 Sears Roebuck catalog home, a home that was picked ...

When you think of Sears today, you may think of a place at the mall where you’d buy tools or a pair of jeans. But if you turn the dial back a century, the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog was also a way ...

CARLINVILLE, ILL. — She speaks with the fervor of a woman possessed. In the cadence of a grange hall auctioneer, Laurie Flori jabs a finger at each house on her street, every one ordered from Sears, ...

Anything could be bought from a Sears catalog: kitchen tables, lamps, clothes, dishes, stoves, mantels — everything you could ever need. You could even buy your house from Sears. Imagine paging ...

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 ...