Also known as packaged homes or modular homes, kit homes are exactly what they sound like. A company designs, cuts, and ...

The average cost to buy a home in Florida in 2025 is hovering around $385,000, according to Zillow’s most current Florida housing market data. But there was once a time, about 85 years ago, when you ...

The Holyoke Mall Sears is set to close this month but there was a time when people purchased nearly everything they owned from Sears, including their home. This month, the Sears inside the Holyoke ...

Long before Amazon and internet shopping, you could buy almost anything from a mail-order catalog. Clothing, furniture, jewelry, toys, plant seeds. Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick ...

A home in McCandless that was ordered from a Sears catalog in 1922 is now on the market. The house at 8828 Memorial Drive was one of the many home kits sold in the United States through the mail-order ...

“A kit home is a uniquely personal story,” Thornton said. “Somebody sat down and pored through a catalog to find the one they liked.” Buyers could choose the floor plans as is or mirrored, and common ...

As Sears stores close around the country, the longtime retailer’s legacy may be a catalog item it stopped selling in the 1940s: home kits. Estimates from the Sears Archives website suggest the company ...

Is your home an “Honor Built home”? What is that you ask? Well, perhaps a Craftsman kit home would help answer the question. The Honor Built, (used in the advertisement) of Craftsman kit homes were ...

A 1925 Colonial-style home in Washington, D.C., that sold last year for $1.06 million had humble beginnings. It was a Sears, Roebuck and Co. kit home, the Martha Washington, advertised in the ...

On Saturday, Nov. 6, the Glen Ellyn Historical Society will present "The Story of Sears Roebuck Kit Homes." In the early 20th century, Sears, Roebuck & Co. used to sell "kit homes" that were delivered ...

As the Holyoke Sears prepares to close this month, people are reminiscing about a time when the company faced little competition. On Monday, 22News showed you several Sears kit homes ordered from the ...

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