Over the decades, the kit homes ranged in price from $3,000 to $10,000 depending on the size, design and scope. The companies also sold garages, boilers, chicken coops, bathtubs and built-in shelving.

The Eaton fire was still raging when two architects dreamed up a plan to give homeowners a head start, and time and money ...

Last week, I featured a gallery of photos of Alabama kit homes bought from Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogs. While some readers were surprised to learn Sears sold kits for everything from outhouses to ...

JEROME, Ariz. (FOX 10) -- With the help of the internet, you can have just about anything shipped to your door within a matter of days, or sometimes even just hours. However, way back when people used ...

FALL RIVER — Before there was Amazon Prime, there was the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog. The retail giant's catalog, printed from 1892 to 1993, featured any product an American consumer could ever need ...

VICTOR, N.Y. — Sears Roebuck and Co. started selling mail-order houses from its specialty catalog — the Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans — in 1908. It is reported that more than 100,000 houses ...

The original 1926 Sears & Roebuck label identifying the house at 115 Belleclaire Avenue in Longmeadow as a Sears kit house. The label includes the name of the recipient of the Sears kit house, the ...

Once upon a time, you could purchase a home for less than $5,000. The Barrington. The Lexington. The Sheridan. The Hazelton. The Malden. From the early 1900s until 1942, Sears, Roebuck and Co., more ...

When Chris Affer and his wife, Laura, were house hunting in Berkley last year, Laura saw that the home where her mother used to get her hair done in the basement was for sale. “She was like, ‘Oh my ...