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 ...

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 ...

There's no place like home, particularly when it comes in 30,000 pieces from a Sears mail-order catalog. Gary and Pat Robert have such a house. Built in 1911, the Dutch colonial, two-story frame house ...

Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything you needed from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog—including a house. In the early 20th century, the massive Sears ...

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 ...

Sears was not the first company to offer mail-ordered "kit homes," but by the time the catalog was discontinued in 1940, Sears is estimated to have sold between 70,000 and 75,000 houses. The homes ...

In her free time, Judith Chabot, a recently retired high school teacher, hunts for a particular kind of house. She browses Zillow listings, pores over historical mortgage records and scours ...

ODEBOLT, Iowa (KTIV) - The once mighty retail giant Sears went bankrupt in 2018. Now about all that remains of the company is a website. In its heyday, Sears printed about 315 million catalogs a year ...

Uniquely is a Sacramento Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Sacramento area so special. Minnie Kendall’s Roseville house was said to ...

When Paul Meltzer bought his colonial revival house on Denton’s Oak Street, he was told his new property was a catalog home. His research revealed that the home, built between 1926 and 1927, was a ...