Sears pioneered the modern prefab house in the early 20th century: Look back at 'kit homes' Sears helped pioneer the latest technology available to modern homebuyers in the early part of the 20th ...

Prefab houses are becoming more popular but iconic retailer Sears started selling 'kit homes' in 1908 and many are still standing.

Learn More › Kit homes, also called catalog or mail-order homes, come shipped to your door in flat-packs with precut (and ...

Kit homes can be found all over the United States - as Sears was one of the most prolific producers of kit homes in the 20th century, you can find their kit homes all over, but especially in Ohio ...

During the first half of the 20th century, over 75,000 new homes across the United States were plucked directly from the pages of a Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogue. From 1908 to 1940, the ...

From 1908 to 1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold kit homes through a mail-order ... making substantial contributions to 20th-century housing in America,” Katherine Cole Stevenson and H. Ward ...

Joe Stickle and his team have given the Sears kit home from 1928 at 116 Parsons Drive in ... the Sears and Roebuck Mail Order Catalog was a must-have for American families in the early 20th Century.

The do-it-yourself, modest tiny home boom is gaining popularity in an era of shocking rent increases and low housing inventory — and we may have America's former largest retailer, Sears, to thank for ...