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Saturday, March 12, 2016
1926 Sears Special Supplement from AntiqueHome.org
Don't miss this never before seen catalog from Sears. Images are available to you on Flickr or Pinterest. Please contact me if you would like a free PDF version of this very special catalog.
See the Flickr Album: Sears Kit Houses from 1926, The Special Supplement
Pin the images to your heart's content!
Friday, September 11, 2015
Tiny Kit House || The Olivia by Sears
Tiny House in St Louis - A tiny (638 sq foot) authenticated Sears Roebuck kit home. Take a look at what Sears House Seeker found.
Monday, August 24, 2015
1917 Montgomery Ward Mail Order Farm
Mail Order Farm House from Montgomery Ward
From the 1917 Coverall Paint Catalog.Montgomery Ward Kit House and Buildings from 1917 |
The Farm Buildings are Kits
The Barn came from a catalog. The Chicken and Hog Houses too. (courtesy Cindy Catanzaro) From the 1917 catalog.The House, available as a kit. (from the 1925 catalog)
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Before the Ranch || Minimal Traditional Style || Order Yours Today
The Style is: Minimal Traditional
The example is a kit home from 1953, the Aladdin Parkway. Available in the late 40's - early 50's.
Here is the 1950 price list. Write a check for $3398, and see what happens next. Sears Homes of Chicagoland has mapped out the process for us.
Aladdin Kit House from the 1953 Catalog |
Minimal Traditional::This style is the Plain Jane of 20th century American residential architecture, but is being "discovered" by new home buyers as the style that immediately preceded the developer's suburban tract homes of the post-WWII period.
The example is a kit home from 1953, the Aladdin Parkway. Available in the late 40's - early 50's.
Here is the 1950 price list. Write a check for $3398, and see what happens next. Sears Homes of Chicagoland has mapped out the process for us.
Monday, August 3, 2015
The American Lumberman || House Plans from Your Local Dealer || 1920
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Defining Chalet Style || No Need to Travel
From: J. W. Lindstrom "Two Story Homes"
Design No. 228
Two Story Chalet Design
From: Preservation Nation Blog
Definition: "A timber dwelling, cottage, or lodge with a gable roof and wide eaves, indigenous to the Swiss Alps, but now found worldwide."
Design No. 228
Two Story Chalet Design
From: Preservation Nation Blog
Definition: "A timber dwelling, cottage, or lodge with a gable roof and wide eaves, indigenous to the Swiss Alps, but now found worldwide."
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Pacific Ready Cut Homes || Style Number 499
From: Loren Latker's -- Pacific Ready Cut Homes
Style No. 499. From the 1925 Catalog
The Pacific Corporation sold it's Ready-Cut homes from 1908-1940. Considered to be the third largest mass producer of pre-cut houses in the United States, Pacific delivered approximately 40,000 units. Business for the company peaked in 1923, sales in 1925 were just 500 homes. In the 1920s working class people aspired to the "good life" of home and auto ownership and Pacific was there to provide the little California bungalow that they were dreaming of.
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