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Sears Catalog Homes, sold between 1908 and 1940, were revolutionary in American homebuilding. These kit homes were ordered from the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog and shipped by train to buyers across the U.S., complete with pre-cut materials and instructions. Offering over 400 designs at affordable prices, they allowed middle-class families to achieve homeownership during a time of rapid urbanization and economic growth. However, the Great Depression and World War II eventually led to their decline, as Sears exited the home-building business. Today, these homes are nostalgic symbols of early 20th-century innovation, though many have deteriorated or disappeared over time.
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My family's home was one, it's been added onto so many times there's nothing outwardly recognizable now.
i live in a 70 year old sears house, its trash. avoid them. There are many almost exactly like mine on my street. my great grandparents bought it.
Grandparents built one in 1929. Still there.
Sad really that Sears has turned into what it turned into. Alan Lacy trashed the company and then Eddie Lampert got what was left of it and really ruined any legacy that could have been left.
The houses were really great and they're awesome to see here and there.
There's a whole neighborhood of them in Carlinville, IL. They were built as housing for workers by (I believe) Standard Oil. They're all still standing and in use.
Are the designs and blueprints available?
We have one! It was built in 1910 in Kansas.
I live in a suburb of KC and our small town has a historic district, where I live. My house was built in 1910 and it is one of the smaller and simpler ones. A house down the street was built in 1868 and a couple blocks away one is from 1856. One thing I notice about the Sears homes vs the ones in my neighborhood is the lack of anything round. I'm sure that would be difficult for Joe Schmo who just bought his home in a catalog but many houses (including mine) have bay windows and circular or semi- circular rooms. I didn't see much of that from the homes I looked up. I was trying to see if my house was one of the houses in the catalog but after that revelation I don't think it was. A couple in my area look like ones I saw when searching, though
Sears had some really neat house designs. It's ashame that almost all the brick and morter stores are gone.
These houses are all over Chicago, I absolutely love them! I’m obsessed with owning one one day!
I have seen a few Sears catalog homes in person. One was still absolutely gorgeous and you could tell it was well made and built right. One was falling apart from years of neglect, but it was still standing tall because, it was well built. And I have seen a few that were either horribly put together and/or modified horribly. I know folks that absolutely loved their Sears home, and a few that hated them. Like houses made today, from trailer to multi-million dollar houses, its going to be a hit-or-miss crap shoot on materials being undamaged in transit, and someone building it correctly with proper, undamaged materials to begin with.
What is it with this current trend of narrators thinking that we want to see their face talking every few minutes? Note to contact creators; this is annoying, and distracting. Please put your vanity aside, we don't need to see face!
5:35 – look at the AI lettering/numbering! Nice!
I got one!
Kit log homes are still available
so many of these houses look nearly identical to some of the houses in my hometown its not even funny.
What Happened To Sears Catalogue Houses?*
Friends of mine live in a Sears kit home in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. Yes, these homes made it all the way up there!
I live near st. Augustine Florida and they have many on display . I also suspect my aunts home in Missouri was a sears home . As a kid it looked like a mansion to me . I was raised buying all my school clothes and Christmas toys via sears – that catalog was a staple in our homes. ❤
Bought our 1930 Maplewood model from my grandparents. Not fancy, but solid bones
OMG I knew it. from the beginning of the video I was constantly thinking "oh I definitely seen this house in Yonkers".
You could be living in one of those homes right now. This generation? Living in homes? Not likely. I’m in an apartment myself.
Bring them back.
Lol .. ya ok, I wish someone would try to steal my house while I'm living in it.. lol… better have a small army when you show up…😂😂😂😂
Sears made a very stupid business decision at the dawn of the internet. They divested the catalog sales stating that the cost of catalog printing was too high. Had they stayed in business and moved to an online catalog, Amazon would probably not exist.
Ann Arbor, Michigan is full of Sears houses.
My home is the classic Sears 4 square home. Except it was built in 1904. My understanding is that you could order the plans or the plans and the lumber.
I toured a beautiful one in Jacksonville, OR, USA. The ownership has since changed. I don't believe that it still open to the public. We were told on the tour that it had arrived in pieces on multiple railroad cars.
Their most expensive home from the 1908 catalog is equivalent to $97k in today’s money. WTF has happened to us?!
There are alot of these homes in Kansas. College Hill in Wichita KS is full of Sears homes.
Grew you in one of these in a coal camp they're still around im only 25. It wasn't kept up the best but with proper upkeep I'd say it would have been a dandy.
houses start at 9:44 😴
In San Diego we have large old neighborhoods of what are called Craftsmen homes…