"What most people don't know is just how radical the catalog was in the era of Jim Crow," Louis Hyman, an associate professor of history at Cornell University, wrote in a Twitter thread that was ...

So in 1940, Sears got out of the business of making life-size dollhouses. And despite all of the adoration from people like Flori, the place of Sears homes in architectural history is decidedly modest ...

Sep. 5—TAMAQUA — Jim Hain believes his grandparents, Charles and Catherine Houser, ordered a new house from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog in the late 1920s or early 1930s. "The house was complete, ...

Anything could be bought from a Sears catalog: kitchen tables, lamps, clothes, dishes, stoves, mantels — everything you could ever need. You could even buy your house from Sears. Imagine paging ...

It’s time for our Monthly with Mosley conversation. Judge Derek Mosley is a municipal court judge for the city of Milwaukee, who will soon become the director of Marquette Law School’s Lubar Center.

Sears, Roebuck & Co. once dominated the mail-order industry by offering a catalog full of nearly every product imaginable. Then the company hit on an idea: what if Sears could offer an entire home ...

Sears sold mail-order kit homes from 1908 to 1942, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Few Sears kit homes were sold in Florida, likely due to shipping logistics and the homes' ...

If home is where the heart is, then those living in houses built from Sears’ mail-order kits may have fallen head-over-heels. A recent Tribune-Review story about a 1922 Sears mail-order home in ...