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 ...

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 ...

What is a Sears kit home? Sears, Roebuck and Co. was one of several companies that sold complete home-building kits by mail order between 1906 and 1946. Sears was not the first; "Sears didn't even ...

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.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Like Amazon today, the Sears and Roebuck Mail Order Catalog was a must-have for American families in the early 20th Century. At the peak of its popularity, the catalog weighed 4 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALBANY — Judi Gabler looks over the website of a modular home manufacturer, admiring the modern fixtures featured in the picture. “It’s crazy,” she said. “It looks like,” she said, catching herself ...

GLASFORD, Ill. (AP) -- Like plows, coats, sewing machines, cook stoves and thousands of other items, Trisha and Michael Robertson's Glasford home was originally purchased through a Sears, Roebuck and ...

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