Author Rebecca Hunter told NPR in 2018 that the Sears kit home “phenomenon is pretty unique to architecture in the United States” and she felt “very strongly that we must save at least a ...

The only Sears house her group is reasonably certain ... the first thing she heard about was kit homes. Someone told Turrill Lupi that a house resembling hers was likely a kit house.

Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.

Tony LaRussa Tuesday, July 20, 2021 9:21 a.m. | Tuesday, July 20, 2021 9:21 a.m. If home is where the heart is, then those living in houses built from Sears’ mail-order kits may have fallen head ...

Minnie Kendall’s Roseville house was said to have been a kit home that arrived ... The house likely didn’t come from Sears. While an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 homes were built through ...

CHELSEA KELLNER Raleigh News & Observer file “The Westly” design appears in a vintage Sears catalog of kit homes. There were also fewer people on the West Coast in the years Sears sold mail ...

Still, the myths about others thinking they or a loved one own a Sears house endure. “We wish we understood for sure how these… misunderstandings happen,” Chabot said. When Catherine Turrill Lupi ...

During that period, Sears sold nearly 75,000 kit homes through its Modern Homes program, which featured 447 different styles of houses ranging from large multi-story dwellings to tiny summer ...

For more than two decades, Sears Home Services has offered home warranty coverage that extends to appliances and home systems. The company offers a 180-day service guarantee and a preventative ...

Sears’ home warranty program is called Sears Home Services. The program covers repairs for a wide range of major brands, and Sears employs over 2,500 manufacturer-trained technicians with an ...

Sears, Roebuck and Co, known typically as Sears, is mostly struggling because of competition from other retailers, such as Walmart and Best Buy — though some questionable business decisions didn ...