America 250: How people ordered their ready-to-assemble homes from a catalog

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, WTOP presents “ 250 Years of America ,” a multipart series examining the ...
PBS

Sears Catalog Homes

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 ...
NJ.com

Sears used to sell build-your-own houses. You might be living in one and not know it.

It was only after Jessica Todd and Dan Brill bought their home in Collingswood, New Jersey, that they found something peculiar about its history: the house came from a mail-order catalog. The home ...
Yahoo

Sears catalog house south of Tamaqua renovated, at center of enclave's revival

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 5—TAMAQUA — Jim Hain believes his grandparents, Charles and Catherine Houser, ordered a new house from a Sears, Roebuck and ...